[Mageia-dev] cinelerra/audiokonverter/arista (war Re: rehashing the faac issue)

Fri Nov 2 00:05:53 CET 2012

Christian Lohmaier <lohmaier+mageia at googlemail.com> writes:
+
+> Hi Wolfgang, *,
+>
+> On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com> wrote:
+>> [...]
+>> After reading all arguments again I must confess that I changed my
+>> opinion: Being consequent and following our road we need a
+>> /tainted-free and a /tainted-nonfree branch.
+>
+> I still think this would be a very user-*un*friendly way to handle it.
+>
+> You cannot put packages that itself is "free", but depends on
+> "tainted&nonfree" packages into the "free" repo, since the core repos
+> need to be self-contained.
+[...]
+> Much better would then be to create an "ugly" repo (in the spirit of
+> gstreamer) that contains the "doesn't fit into the other repos" stuff.
+
+That's just a naming issue then, are you just suggesting to rename the
+"tainted-nonfree" repository proposal as "ugly"?
+This crossed my mind too, but the name is less understandable by users
+not necessarily familiar with the gstreamer naming.
+
+If we go for the "tainted + nonfree" way, its definition should be that
+it contains packages that:
+(1) are both tainted and not free software
+or
+(2) packages having a hard requirement on packages from (1)
+
+-- 
+Olivier Blin - blino
+