Re: repository creation

[seth vidal <skvidal phy duke edu>]

> I think it is correct to move src.rpms and debuginfo out of the default
> path. Instead of moving this to the user to enable/disable it, I thought
> to use differently named files within the repodata.
> All information about src.rpms goes to new filenames and you can trigger
> reading in the debuginfo files if a "*-debuginfo" package name is needed.
> 
> This puts the namespace question to the repodata and is adding special
> interpretation to rpm package names ("*-debuginfo"), but tries to get
> all this more transparent to the user compared to offering this via
> configured repo locations.
> 
> ?? Both ways have their pros and cons.

The con of doing it the way you're describing is that it implicitly
dictates something about the repository structure. Not sure I like that.

But i see your point about having them magically enabled. The only
problem is that for depsolving it doesn't make it much easier.

-sv