That ole Livna Problem/That ole VLC Problem

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Jan 17 00:00:06 UTC 2008


Michael Schwendt wrote:
> 
>> The
>> problem is that, by policy in some cases, by law in others, and just by
>> not being omnipotent in yet others, they don't include everything people
>> want to run within the project.
> 
> Software which is subject to patenting or licensing problems is even
> another topic.

It isn't really another topic.  The topic is that other software exists 
that people will want to install on their fedora system.  You could try 
to pretend that the right solution is for the fedora project to package 
everything in a compatible manner and put it all in the same repo, _but_ 
when the policy (and/or the law) precludes putting everything in there, 
that pretense is obviously the wrong approach.  With Nvidia and Java, it 
is mostly policy - but there are other things that can't legally ever be 
included, and there are repositories of rpm-packaged programs that 
pre-date the whole fedora project and continue to run.  So how much 
sense does it make to have a packaging/install system that assumes there 
can only be one choice without a way to coordinate the 
names/versions/files with the others that really do exist?

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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