Re: [rawhide social experiments] kernel-source(code) package removed once again ... (was: How to build kernel-sourcecode-2.6.8-1.525)

[Manuel Moreno <manolo miconexion com>]

* social experiments are dangerous, you risk pissing off end users
and/or contributors and eventually reduce your user/contributor base
(people vote against evil social experiments with their feet: "el último
que se vaya que apague la luz...")

* social experiments are good if there is a good reason (technical or
other), so it is explained and everything is OK i.e. the change from 
kernel-source-n.n-n.arch.rpm -> kernel-sourcecode-n.n-n.noarch.rpm

** kernel-sourcecode (or whatever you call it) _is_ necessary to build
drivers from other developers or vendors (madwifi, hostapp, intel,
etc...) and it is explicitly required so in documentation and howtos;
thus, this social experiment is _not_ good, unless we pretend to bury
Linux in its own 'ghetto' making _more_ difficult for third parties to
contribute and reducing the range of compatible devices...

** size is not an argument against because there are _enoumous_
'debuginfo' packages and they are rebuilt and posted regularly.

** "you can do it yourself" is neither because with this same argument
taken to the limit no distribution is necessary.

* _this_ social experiment has been previously discussed so why it comes
again? is Fedora open and community driven? or is Fedora a RedHat social
experiment?

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Manuel Moreno <manolo miconexion com>