Re: The future of patch-o-matic-ng

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>]

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> Harald Welte schrieb:
> 
>>On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 12:34:21PM +0200, Krzysztof Oledzki wrote:
>>
>>
>>>So, this external repository will be used only by netfilter server to
>>>download patchlets? People will be still able to download complete
>>>pom-ng package? 
>>
>>No, users will actually only download 
> 
> 
> And exactly that's the problem with the proposed change. The value
> of pom-ng was not a central list of patches (I can always get that
> from the netfilter web site), but the packaged collection.

You can always do "runme --download" and you have the packaged
collection. We could also start doing two releases, one with
only patches maintained by the netfilter team and one with
all the patches.

> So if you really don't want to package patches from other sources
> anymore, please be honest and call the new package pom-coreteam
> or something like that.

Whats the point? We _do_ include other patches, just not every
random crap.