Call for vote: Nautilus use Browser view for fedora 11

Mark markg85 at gmail.com
Sat Dec 20 20:46:47 UTC 2008


On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Jeff Spaleta wrote:
>>
>> That's a copout excuse.  You are spending a lot of time right now
>> beating your head on the brick wall on this issue.  Figuring out a
>> technical solution in the form of a LiveCD under the umbrella of the
>> GNOME project might actually be the better argument than what you are
>> doing now.
>
> Is there a fixed policy on how fedora must relate to upstream packages?
>  That is, do you have a requirement to take every default that the upstream
> has (themes, etc.)?  Or can any packager make any whimsical change he wants
> at any time?  Or something in between?
>
> --
>  Les Mikesell
>   lesmikesell at gmail.com

What they all said so far is that it either has to be done upstream or
the package maintainer has to do it by making a patch. In this
nautilus case that's the same person. (i won't name him this time
because they also say that won't help the discussion ^_^)




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