[Mageia-dev] [RFC] Moving various packages/codecs to tainted

Tue Jan 10 02:06:17 CET 2012

On 01/09/2012 06:38 PM, Anssi Hannula wrote:
+> On 10.01.2012 01:30, David Walser wrote:
+>
+>> That's the absolute last thing I want to see happen.  It's one of the reasons Fedora and others that do that are not viable options for a lot
+>> of non-technical users, and it just makes it so you have to jump through a lot of extra hoops just to have a reasonably working system
+> I'm absolutely fine with either moving codecs to core or tainted, as
+> long as we are at least somewhat consistent in what is in core and what
+> is in tainted.
+
+I agree with both of you, but the problem is the difference between 
+non-free and tainted.  Unfortunately, both are required for a 
+"reasonably working system".  But in the case of nonfree, it's just a 
+matter of us internally getting past the "purity of the media" issue.  
+In the case of tainted, there are legal issues.
+
+I think that the ultimate solution is going to have to be integrated 
+support in the installer allowing the user to hook up either nonfree, 
+tainted, or both, just by answering a simple prompt.  The mirror 
+database probably ought to (if it doesn't already) keep track of which 
+mirrors supply nonfree and tainted (or better still, check at install 
+time), and customize mirror selection based on the user's response.
+
+For non-network installs, I don't see a way around separate ISOs, at 
+least for tainted.
+