What are all the different Siduction repositories?

[jjjrrr3]

Indian Summer comes with a sources.list file for "official siduction-lists" and one for miscellaneous lists (which is entirely commented out by default).  The recent Plasma 5 discussion revealed even more (to me at least).  What are all of the available Siduction repositories and what is each one for? Is this documented somewhere?

[devil]

Please have a look at http://packages.siduction.org/. Maybe that answers your question.


greetz
devil

[jjjrrr3]

Aha!  I'd looked in the manual and forums but hadn't seen that page.  I still have some questions.

In the Plasma 5 discussion, I saw other repositories mentioned. Are they obsolete after the recent changes in sid?
deb http://packages.siduction.org/kdenext kde-frameworks main
deb http://packages.siduction.org/kdenext/ experimental-snapshots main

What are each of the repositories for?  Why are the "miscellaneous" repos commented out by default? "packages.siduction.org/experimental" seems as if it could be dangerous, but "packages.siduction.org/user" seems innocuous.

Thanks.

[devil]

The kdenext-repos are not obsolete, no. But it is your choice to use them or not (if you use kde at all).
Santa packages latest KDE for us there, so most of the time we are way ahead of debian when it comes to KDE. At the moment KDE in sid is quite broken, works fine from kdenext though. So the stable repo is for users, the experimental one is more for internal testing or enthusiast users.


greetz
devil

[jjjrrr3]

I'm still not sure how to decide which repositories are relevant to me. For example ...

   
• I've seen references to both of the following, but only the first is listed on the packages page.  I'm not sure if I should use the second one.
  deb http://packages.siduction.org/kdenext unstable main
  deb http://packages.siduction.org/kdenext kde-frameworks main
  
• "deb http://packages.siduction.org/user unstable main contrib non-free" was included in the misc.list file but commented out. Why might I want to uncomment it?

In general, how do I know whether I would want to use a particular repository or not?  Are they further documented somewhere?

Thanks again!  I don't mean to be a pest. 

[der_bud]

Hi jjjrr3, there are several repos used for example by our developers, and you might find them mentioned in some threads in the forum. Kde-frameworks is one of them, and you don't need it unless someone advises it in a support case.
The /user repo was originally thought of as a place where users (with account to do so) could upload packages they think to be useful in siduction, but they are not from the team so 'not supported'. If you take a look in that repo, there is just a handful of packages, and most people don't activate it.

[jjjrrr3]

So the "official" list is always good, the others on the packages page are optional, and anything else is for use only if recommended by the developers, is that a accurate summary?

[der_bud]

So the "official" list is always good, the others on the packages page are optional, and anything else is for use only if recommended by the developers, is that a accurate summary?

Sounds legit !