Package Maintainers Flags policy

Colin Walters walters at verbum.org
Tue May 19 19:07:31 UTC 2009


On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> I just feel that once you've gotten to the point where we have to define
> packaging policies around magic provides, rel-eng checks to make sure that
> packages with magic provides don't end up in specific places, and then
> we may need special plugins to handle them... we've gone beyond reasonable
> solutions to the problem, and solutions that probably outweigh in effort
> and complexity the amount of work required to package things to just not
> use flags.

Do we have any kind of (even approximate) list of affected packages?




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