Proposal: fedora-release-rawhide subpackage

[Zing]

On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 12:17:02 +0100, Thomas Janssen wrote:

> 2010/1/7 Zing <zing at fastmail.fm>:
>> 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?
> 
> Because the type of users we speak of, just enable *blindly* whatever
> repo is available by a *default* installation. Those type of users
> *dont* read at all, neither descriptions coming with a package nor
> websites. So the barrier is much higher for them to break their boxen.

Well, yeah, my question was rhetorical... I guess my point was the 
barrier can't get high enough for the class of user we're talking 
about.   I get a little grumpy when we make changes for these type of 
people.  sorry.