Fedora/RH policies sometimes suck

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Thu Apr 12 00:05:47 UTC 2007


Brian Truter wrote:
>> On Tuesday 10 April 2007 05:31, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>> linuxmaillists at charter.net wrote:
>>>
>>>> I just want to know what other
>>>> packages are on the Fedora distro that are are missing
>>>> original functionality simply because of legal issues.
>>> And that would help how?  Yes, you'd know what you're missing...but you
>>> already know you're missing "something" so why not install the
>>> OpenOffice
>>> rpms and be assured of missing nothing.
>>>
>> No-one is answering the question.  Forget the OpenOffice fixation.  The
>> question is 'How do we know which of Fedora's packages have been altered
>> in
>> this way?'  OpenOffice would be one, but there are others.  Totem comes to
>> mind, and I'd guess that there are lots more.  As Les remarked, it could
>> be
>> indicated in the package name.
>>
>> As for how it would help, we could then decide for ourselves whether we
>> need
>> to go to the source and build our own packages.
>>
>> Anne
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> 
> Personally, I agree with this sentiment 100%. I would like to know which
> packages are modified by RedHat, and differ from the creator's original.

Great.  Bring it up on the fedora-devel-list.




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