Package Maintainers Flags policy

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Tue May 19 17:46:01 UTC 2009



On Tue, 19 May 2009, Bill Nottingham wrote:

> Seth Vidal (skvidal at fedoraproject.org) said:
>>>> If we end up needing  yum plugin of some kind to handle this can I call
>>>> it the free-randomstan plugin?
>>>
>>> We don't have a yum-patents plugin, or Provides(patents). Why are we
>>> going to such lengths here?
>>
>> How would we have a Provides(patents) on pkgs in fedora? If the pkgs had
>> patent issues we couldn't ship them at all, could we?
>
> What I'm saying is that in the amount of tossing around of ideas in this
> thread, and the amount of work that would be required to sanely implement
> this (and explain it in a way that makes sense to the users) we could
> have fixed 99.9% of the packages to not ship flags about 5 times over.
>

I thought this thread was about explaining it in a way that our developers 
understand it.

I'm sorry you feel your time has been wasted.
-sv




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