> Would have some topics to talk about though (pro-audio software
inclusion and keeping in the Arch Linux main repositories, amongst
others).
I'd be interested in this topic as well. Been doing some packaging for audio production applications for gentoo and I'm starting to consider proposing splitting off these specific pieces of software from the main tree because I feel that that could work towards more ownership and by extension a higher quality of the packages compared to the state we're at currently with the "monolithic" package tree.
Since for both Arch and Gentoo it's pretty easy for user to add custom packages I'd be interested in the reasons why you would prefer to have the packages in the main Arch repo (assuming that you actually prefer this of course :)).
Thanks,
Simon