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

Tue Jan 10 04:12:05 CET 2012

Juan Luis Baptiste a écrit :
+> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Anssi Hannula<anssi at mageia.org>  wrote:
+>    
+>> 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. However, I do not really like the reasoning "we do it
+>> like mandriva did no matter if it is sensible or not".
+>>
+>> I'd possibly understand "we do it like mandriva did because they didn't
+>> apparently have problems with these pkgs", but it IMHO wouldn't really
+>> fly as we could just s/mandriva/ubuntu/ in that statement (and Ubuntu is
+>> much more prominent than mdv IMO) and then everything would be in core...
+>>
+>>      
+> IMHO, for sake's of simplicity and user friendliness, we should leave
+> everything in core until there's a real threat from someone about
+> patents. Surely if it appears some day,  we wouldn't be the first ones
+> to be approached which would leave us plenty of time to correct this
+> issue and move affected packages to tainted.
+>
+>    
+I strongly agree with this approach.
+
+-- 
+André
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