Why there is a collabora.list on my raspbian wheezy source repo?

Question

Why there are more sources repos on my raspbian wheezy?

They are /etc/apt/sources.list.d/raspi.list and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/collabora.list.

For what are they needed?

Answer 1

Collabora has improved software for the foundation under contract. They implemented Hardware acceleration inside Webkit (for Ephiphany) and did work on a Wayland desktop called Maynard.

It makes sense that they run an extra repository with the improved versions.

Sources :

• http://raspberrypi.collabora.co.uk/maynard.html
• http://blog.barisione.org/2014-09/rpi-browser/

Answer 2

As the directory would suggest, those are the list of "sources" from which apt-get will pull applications from. etc/apt/sources.list.d/raspi.list lists the official repos, and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/collabora.list appears to be an official mirror.

Answer 3

In addition to the individual files in the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list files that Jacobm001 refers to, the "master" file in /etc/apt/sources.list is also used - it pre-dates the "individual repository file in a sub-directory" format that Debian (and thus Raspbian) now uses, and will probably have at least a reference to a mirrordirector.raspbian.org source which actually redirects requests to a local mirror for you.