[Mageia-dev] packaging amrwb ?

Wed Jun 20 15:11:54 CEST 2012

Am 20.06.2012 14:54, schrieb Guillaume Rousse:
+> Le 20/06/2012 14:26, Oliver Burger a écrit :
+>> Am 20.06.2012 14:15, schrieb Claire Robinson:
+>>> I don't want to add fuel to the fire but just out of interest, why is it
+>>> that we don't allow nonfree-tainted in Tainted?
+>>>
+>>> I understand that open source purists may not want it but are we
+>>> catering to a minority and ignoring a majority?
+>> Well, above all we are an OpenSource project and one of our most central
+>> values being an OpenSource project is promoting OpenSource software.
+> I wonder why you can tolerate stuff as 'automatic skype downloader' or
+> its flash equivalent being in the distribution then.
+>
+> This kind of code need constant efforts on packager side to keep them
+> up-to-date, whereas even the most clueless end user could easily
+> download and install it manually. The ratio between the developper time
+> spent and the added value for end user is quite low.
+>
+> On the other hand, this codec issue is totally obscure for any end user,
+> and the skills needed to rebuild the whole software chain is way out of
+> scope for the average mageia target population.
+>
+> So, it would be far more consistent to either follow the debian way of
+> life, and get rid of flash and skype downloaders, or to make life easier
+> for end-users, just by adding this miserable faac package in less
+> problematic repository.
+Actiually we have two repos containing free software (core and tainted) 
+and one repo conatining nonfree software.
+We have two repos not tainted by patents (core and nonfree) and one 
+other (tainted).
+So either we redefine something about our repos or we add a fourth one 
+or we don't build that kind of software.
+
+Oliver
+
+-- 
+Oliver Burger aka obgr_seneca
+
+Mageia contributor
+