Re: 13-check-invalid-provides trips over '+' in package name due to grep -E

On Friday 2010-02-26 00:52, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
>
>But since I greased your beard with so much honey: what I dislike
>is, that you have too many packages in your repos.

Well hey I've got so many systems to administer and use, I need all
of it. And the only sane choice is to have everything in a single
repo. It's just infeasible to add tons of .repo files to every system
*and* keep them up to date (well yeah turns out you can use
$releasever or some magic string in SUSE too, but that's a recent
discovery). gcc-4.5 for example used to be in home:rguenther, then it
moved to devel:gcc.

On the other hand, all packages that accumulated in my repo are just
a sign of openSUSE lacking them. Of course I have been busy in SR'ing
pieces, but then there are sometimes nitpicky situations
(kernel-source; solvable) or unreasonably conservative/inertial
gatekeepers (net-tools; BNC#492665, FATE#307200).

In a way, you could say that the amount of RPMs in my repo is a
(combined) factor of and index about:

 1. interesting stuff, new stuff
 2. stuff that openSUSE can't include due to legalalala
 3. different stuff (customization like shell prompts -
    something that is unlikely to ever make it upstream)
 4. discontent with openSUSE

Maybe I should split my SRPM directory up into subdirectories
based upon these categories to keep an easy count. Watch out
for when directory number 4 grows.

>For a distribution, that's fine, but if you only look for some
>special packages, it's awful to pull a lot of other stuff. That
>depresses the popularity of your repos considerably in my eyes.

Well let me put in this disclaimer:
- If User does not like it, don't use it
- User is not required to download more than what the dependencies
  require
- User is not required to install more than what the dependencies
  require
- Dependencies are built in good faith,
  especially you won't get the much-needed net-tools fix forced
  into the system (unless you explicitly request to have a
  jeng-approved system by installing jeng-*-packages).