Proposal: fedora-release-rawhide subpackage

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On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:02:24 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:

> On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:24:05 +0100
> Till Maas <opensource at till.name> wrote:
> 
>> You propose that the repo should be enabled by default if the package
>> is installed. I don't like this. This make it a lot easier to break a
>> system with Rawhide, if one installs the repo file, e.g. only to be
>> able to easily download the src.rpm files with yumdownloader or to
>> query it with repoquery, but not to actually install the unsigned
>> packages from it.
> 
> How many folks do this? I suppose this is a downside... we could also
> ship it with default disabled, so you would need to install and then
> enable it.

What makes you think these same users won't then also edit and enable 
rawhide at this point?  It's not much of a stretch to think these 
seemingly innocent users might see this "rawhide" package, install, and 
then also enable it; in fact, ISTM, a package that they don't have that 
promises some type of newest whizbang gadgets that they're missing out on 
might entice more of this class of user.  :(

Might I suggest:

$ chattr +i /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-rawhide.repo

just kidding, well, half-kidding :)