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Is there a chance that Cinnamon will be included in standard repositories anytime soon?
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I have no clue, but I just switched to it over the weekend and I am definitely impressed with it!
Matt
"It is very difficult to educate the educated."
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Is there a chance that Cinnamon will be included in standard repositories anytime soon?
That's irrelevant. There is never a time frame for any package to go into what you call the standard repositories. A package goes in only if a dev/TU is willing to take interest in the said package.
There's no such thing as a stupid question, but there sure are a lot of inquisitive idiots !
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spendzo wrote:Is there a chance that Cinnamon will be included in standard repositories anytime soon?
That's irrelevant. There is never a time frame for any package to go into what you call the standard repositories. A package goes in only if a dev/TU is willing to take interest in the said package.
Ok, but given the popularity cinnamon gained this is to be expected, therefore the question...
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so vote for it, and hope for enough votes, for a dev/TU to adopt it.
ezik
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so vote for it, and hope for enough votes, for a dev/TU to adopt it.
ezik
did it.
just noticed this in faq:
Q: How many votes does it take to get a PKGBUILD into [community]?
A: Usually, at least 10 votes are required for something to move into [community]. However, if a TU wants to support a package, it will often be found in the repository.
and cinnamon has 235 votes.
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If no dev/TU is interested in maintaining it, it won't go in the repos no matter how many votes it has.
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Yeah, Yaourt is a good example. It has like 5200 votes and is still not there. It takes the dev/TU or it ain't gettin there...
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Yeah, Yaourt is a good example. It has like 5200 votes and is still not there. It takes the dev/TU or it ain't gettin there...
Tools like yaourt that automatically install packages from AUR will never go in the repos no matter how many votes they get. It's done to make the distinction that AUR is unsupported. Also, some packages can't go in the repos because of their license (e.g. acroread). So there are many different reasons why a certain package isn't in the repo.
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Right, I guess that's kind of what I was getting at, that just votes alone won't get it into the repo's.
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FlyingHappy wrote:Yeah, Yaourt is a good example. It has like 5200 votes and is still not there. It takes the dev/TU or it ain't gettin there...
Tools like yaourt that automatically install packages from AUR will never go in the repos no matter how many votes they get. It's done to make the distinction that AUR is unsupported. Also, some packages can't go in the repos because of their license (e.g. acroread). So there are many different reasons why a certain package isn't in the repo.
Also, Yaourt in particular has a few know security issues, such as sourcing PKGBUILDS before you even see them. This hasn't been fixed in ages, AFAIK.
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