Re: vn-cclan package naming conventions and repository organization

Erik Enge <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.cclan.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Miles Egan <[email protected]> writes:

> I suppose this could be implemented either way, but it would be a lot
> trickier to write code that trawled through all the links fetching all
> the meta-information for each package than it would be if the rep was
> centralized.

Very tricky.  What would one do if a site was down?  If the collection
of code is big enough, some site or other will always be down.  What
does one do about dependencies on that package?

Erik.



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