[Mageia-dev] About panotools patent problem (and other problematic rpms)

Thu Feb 24 00:27:38 CET 2011

+
+Quote: Thomas Backlund wrote on Sun, 20 February 2011 19:48
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+> 
+> It is an abuse yes,
+> but the great thing about it is we _know_ it works...
+> so no surprises...
+> 
+> (if it aint broken...)
+
+Agreed, the automatic preference of urpmi for plf when plf is enabled is
+something I have always appreciated on Mandriva, so I would prefer if we
+keep it similar in Mageia.
+The only plf package (and I make heavy use of plf packages) I ever had to
+put in skip.list was libfreetype since the mdv one rendered fonts better
+on my hardware.
+
+> Well, the old simple logic works...
+> 
+> lets say we "abuse" the release tag, for example changing "mga" to
+> "mgt"
+> then if the user enables "tainted" (meaning he/she wants the rpms)
+> urpmi 
+> will automatically get the "mgt" ones, no questions asked...
+> 
+> simple, and effective.
+
+mga / mgt seems the best solution to me, just like Thomas says: simple and
+effective!
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