[Mageia-dev] rehashing the faac issue

Wed Oct 3 10:52:11 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Guillaume Rousse at 03/10/12 08:40 did gyre and gimble:
+> Le 02/10/2012 23:58, PhilippeDidier a écrit :
+>> If the problem is really not soluble inside Mageia we can ask for a
+>> third party repo (guys from Blogdrake already provide FAAC, handbrake
+>> and cinerella... may we ask them to rebuild upon FAAC some Mageia's rpms
+>> ? the spec files are ready for this!)
+> It is perfectly soluble, and we don't need anyone else. If you reread
+> the thread, there is a consensus to use the tainted repository for
+> hosting it, provided some minor changes to its content definition first.
+
+Just as a possible solution here (which might actually make life easier
+generally and perhaps even see the deprecation of the non-free
+repository completely....
+
+Could we add a "license blacklist" (or whitelist) feature to URMI?
+
+We could maintain a list of non-free (or free) licenses and users who
+prefer foss only, could easily configure their systems (it could be the
+default) to reject any RPM where the license does not match the rules.
+
+This way we only have core and tainted. The only issue is patents or
+not. The rest is just sorted out by filtering by the tools involved.
+
+Just a suggestion.
+
+Col
+
+
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