[Mageia-dev] Mageia repository sections, licenses, restrictions, firmware etc

Wed Oct 13 18:58:03 CEST 2010

  Am 12.10.2010 17:02, schrieb Anssi Hannula:
+> Hi all!
+>
+> Do people have any thoughts on what kind of repository/media sectioning we
+> should use on Mageia, and what should those sections contain?
+My 2 cents:
+
+Generally i would like to avoid a seperation like main/contrib in mandriva,
+but it would be nice to differentiate between free/non-free, this may not
+be done through seperate repos, but with some packaging magic like added
+metadata or some other dirty tricks ;) so that it is possible to have
+a free/libre install out-of-the box, asking during installation.
+
+Or maybe always do a free/libre default install, and afterwards on the first
+boot with mageia, and after having set up repos, give the user the choice
+to have all codecs/multimedia stuff automatically installed by a package
+task-multimedia-magic, but presenting him an overview what that choice
+could mean: patent infringement, dmca-like stuff and so on.
+
+So every user gets a free/libre default install, but automatically the
+choice to be able to play all sorts of multimedia files.
+
+Moreover what i think would be more important to not make something
+like with Mandriva/PLF, so that users get these by default, but
+maybe deactivated.
+
+There should be no bigger 3rd party repositories necessary, IMHO.
+