[arch-dev-public] Where [erxtra] ends and [community] begins

eliott eliott at cactuswax.net
Sun Oct 14 22:49:25 EDT 2007


> I don't know what people have against games or scientific packages.
> The whole niche thing is subjective. One could argue that some core
> packages are niche packages like screen which is probably used by a
> minority of users. What about the wireless drivers? Tom has asked for
> testers for wlan-ng and no one came forward. We didn't concluded that
> it's a niche packages that should be moved to community.

Wireless drivers are a bad example.
Some people use those for..you know.. getting on a network.
That is fairly important from the perspective of a network
distribution like arch.




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