packages without internet source in fedora

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Wed Apr 16 20:21:52 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 16:18 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 16:14 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 22:00 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > > * missing upstream: I think that fedorahosted is not right, a distro
> > >   neutral place should in my opinion be better.
> > 
> > I don't really feel that way.  That'd be like saying code.google.com
> > isn't neutral because they also do a linux distro (or have threatened
> > to)
> 
> maybe I'm confused - I can see some concern about distro-specific
> locations for abandoned/orphaned upstreams. But not for apps for whom
> their upstream is hosted in fedorahosted. for those - it should be fine
> - and not matter about the distro.
> 
> -sv
> 

Maybe I'm just jaded that fedorahosted is too 'distro specific'.  I
didn't want it to be, but I guess that's what you get when "fedora" is
attached to the name.  (having to sign the Fedora CLA to get an account
doesn't help much either...)

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
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