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

Fri Nov 2 00:56:41 CET 2012

Hi Olivier, *,
+
+On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Olivier Blin <mageia at blino.org> wrote:
+> Christian Lohmaier <lohmaier+mageia at googlemail.com> writes:
+>> 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.
+>>
+> [...]
+>> 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"?
+
+No - my point was that I think a split of tainted into tainted-free
+and tainted-nonfree is pointless and not user-friendly.
+I only want one repository for the "problematic" stuff.
+
+Not naming it "tainted" is just because what ends up there is not only
+stuff that really is tainted, but also packages that just depend on
+tainted ones.
+
+> 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)
+
+See - and that from my POV is pointless. so the tainted+nonfree
+contains a happy mixture of tainted and non-tainted, all variants of
+free to tainted-nonfree.
+
+I just don't see the point in splitting "tainted" repo that way (other
+than that bureaucratic thing that I as a user think is superfluous)
+
+ciao
+Christian
+