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

Tue Jan 10 12:04:57 CET 2012

'Twas brillig, and andre999 at 10/01/12 03:12 did gyre and gimble:
+> 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.
+> 
+
+I don't. Especially not with this message now in a public forum
+admitting that we'd just be sticking our heads in the sand with regards
+to this issue.
+
+If any legal action was taken, any efforts to plan for and deal with the
+issues involved will be seen as a sign of good faith. This is very much
+the opposite and thus would lead to stronger legal action should it ever
+come to that.
+
+I really do not get the problem with splitting things out into the
+appropriate repos.
+
+The only real question is about whether to enable those repos by default
+and include the RPMs.
+
+The split is a purely technical decision that should (in theory at
+least) have zero impact on a default install unless we specifically
+decide to allow it to.
+
+
+Col
+
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