[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout

Fri Dec 10 17:04:04 CET 2010

2010/12/10 Romain d'Alverny <rdalverny at gmail.com>:
+>
+> To summarize, strategies:
+>  1. ignore the issues and see what happens;
+>  2. ignore the less significant ones;
+>  3. get to know each of these and manage case by case
+>  4. other?
+>
+> and factor whenever possible and see what happens, update, repeat.
+>
+> 1. and 2. are more radical, but are some sort of trial-and-error, risk
+> management strategies. Ok... looking at it this way won't lead us
+> further I guess.
+
+Agreed
+
+> Let's try this: what if we consider, at first, that software patents
+> were a non-issue? (that is, we just consider they are all invalid as
+> such).
+>
+> How would this change/simplify the problem?
+>  - for packaging/shipping the distribution
+>  - for mirroring it
+>  - for using it.
+
+>From a mirror maintainer's view:
+If I am in a country like France (not acknowledging SP) I can ignore
+safely the issue
+If I am in a country which does acknowledge SP I will have to decide
+for myself if I want to take that risk. THis may be an easy decision
+in some countries but in others (like the USA) it may be a hard
+decision, also depending on who I am (a private person or a large
+institution/organisation).
+
+>From the users's view:
+Living in a country without SP (or not caring about the issue) it is
+the easiest way. I can use automagical setup of media and need not
+worry about an extra repo to set before I can watch my DVDs :)
+Again in a country like USA I have to decide for myself - this would
+be a nightmare if the "whatever-dubious" software is included in the
+normal repos. I would have to find out by myself which is "ok" to use
+and which is not.
+
+-- 
+wobo
+