[Catalog-sig] disallowing the removal of packages?

[Martijn Faassen]

Hi there,

On 07/04/2011 09:25 PM, Georg Brandl wrote:

> I have to agree.  Any hosting service that doesn't allow me to remove
> uploaded content looks extremely fishy to me.

That's the question: is PyPI like a web hosting service? Or is PyPI 
something else, or something else as well?

Is wikipedia a hosting service, or something else? Should it be keeping 
old revisions of documents?

Is Debian a hosting service, or something else? Should it be keeping old 
revisions of packages?

> I think this list has already discussed the issue of people using PyPI
> as a dependency for deployment in production, and recommended the use
> of private package mirrors.

Why should these package mirrors have to be private? Why can't we share one?

Regards,

Martijn