Are packages w/o necessary kernel modules allowed?

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 10/14/2009 06:30 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 05:29:13PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>> On 10/14/2009 03:04 PM, Peter Lemenkov wrote:
>>> Hello All!
>>>
>>> Imagine an application, which relies on a specific kernel module. This
>>> module is not a part of stock Fedora kernel (at least, yet), and we
>>> don't allow stand-alone kernel modules.
>>>
>>> Whether or not this package can be allowed?
>>>
>> IMO: no.
>>
>> Packages in Fedora should "just work" and therefore must not rely on
>> anything which is not in Fedora.
>
> Well I don't think this should be a hard and fast rule.
Then our opions diverge: I think it should be a hard show stopper criterion.

There should not be any room for any "cripple ware" in Fedora nor should 
Fedora be a stage for "closed source loaders".

Ralf