[arch] Arch release policy - extra repo

[Christian Schmidt]

On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 12:08:30PM +0200, Peter Feuerer wrote:
> Hi archers,
> 
> I was wondering, why you don't tag the extra repo with the release tags
> like you do with the current repo? That should not be such a big effort.
> 
> Additionally it would be great to have at least the packages of the
> extra repo (maybe also the once of the community repo) of every arch
> release stored somewhere. This would enable to get a real (with desktop
> environment and so on) installation of arch of the time the release x.y.
> was launched. Because I dont think the base packages are enough, if
> somebody wants to stick to a release.
> 
> --peter

One single question: why? Arch is meant to be rolling-release-distro. It
is not intended to "stick with a release". The releases are just there
to make the installation easier. If you want to stick with a release,
you most likeley chose the wrong distribution.

Christian // mucknert

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