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The term 'cranlike' repositry #32
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Along those lines: for some people, I think "cranlike" just means you have a Other people take "cranlike" to mean that it has gatekeeping, revdep checks, and an archival system. Maybe it would be useful to distinguish between an |
I definitely view the term this way. a package repository is simply a webfacing directory with a PACKAGES index that works with I think this is also the information most relevant to end users, is this simply a webfacing directory + index, or does this provide guarantees. |
Some people in the meeting have mentioned that they are not sure cranlike repository is a good term. I think it is fine, and I doubt anyone from the CRAN team will object either, so perhaps it is not needed to overthink this.
We use 'cranlike' mostly to disambiguate the term from other types of repositories, such as a "git repository". It refers to the format of the package repository.
CRAN is in many ways designed after Debian, and a heavy user of Debian. In Debian the term "Debian repository" is used in the same way, see: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianRepository
Further down the docs distinguish between "official debian repositories" and unofficial ones with 3rd party software, and instructions how to enable them: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianRepository/Unofficial
So note that the term "debian repository" itself is not at all controversial, it clearly refers to the format of the repo, nothing else. So this is pretty much exactly the way we use the word cranlike.
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