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However, I do not really like the reasoning "we do it +</I>>>><i> like mandriva did no matter if it is sensible or not". +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> I'd possibly understand "we do it like mandriva did because they didn't +</I>>>><i> apparently have problems with these pkgs", but it IMHO wouldn't really +</I>>>><i> fly as we could just s/mandriva/ubuntu/ in that statement (and Ubuntu is +</I>>>><i> much more prominent than mdv IMO) and then everything would be in +</I>>>><i> core... +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> +</I>>><i> IMHO, for sake's of simplicity and user friendliness, we should leave +</I>>><i> everything in core until there's a real threat from someone about +</I>>><i> patents. Surely if it appears some day, we wouldn't be the first ones +</I>>><i> to be approached which would leave us plenty of time to correct this +</I>>><i> issue and move affected packages to tainted. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> +</I>><i> I strongly agree with this approach. +</I>><i> +</I> +I don't. Especially not with this message now in a public forum +admitting that we'd just be sticking our heads in the sand with regards +to this issue. + +If any legal action was taken, any efforts to plan for and deal with the +issues involved will be seen as a sign of good faith. This is very much +the opposite and thus would lead to stronger legal action should it ever +come to that. + +I really do not get the problem with splitting things out into the +appropriate repos. + +The only real question is about whether to enable those repos by default +and include the RPMs. + +The split is a purely technical decision that should (in theory at +least) have zero impact on a default install unless we specifically +decide to allow it to. + + +Col + +-- + +Colin Guthrie +colin(at)mageia.org +<A HREF="http://colin.guthr.ie/">http://colin.guthr.ie/</A> + +Day Job: + Tribalogic Limited <A HREF="http://www.tribalogic.net/">http://www.tribalogic.net/</A> +Open Source: + Mageia Contributor <A HREF="http://www.mageia.org/">http://www.mageia.org/</A> + PulseAudio Hacker <A HREF="http://www.pulseaudio.org/">http://www.pulseaudio.org/</A> + Trac Hacker <A HREF="http://trac.edgewall.org/">http://trac.edgewall.org/</A> +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="011194.html">[Mageia-dev] [RFC] Moving various packages/codecs to tainted +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="011228.html">[Mageia-dev] [RFC] Moving various packages/codecs to tainted +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#11202">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#11202">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#11202">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#11202">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |