[Mageia-dev] rehashing the faac issue

Wed Oct 3 15:13:48 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Johnny A. Solbu at 03/10/12 14:01 did gyre and gimble:
+> On Wednesday 03 October 2012 09:40, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
+>> there is a consensus to use the tainted repository for 
+>> hosting it, provided some minor changes to its content definition first.
+> 
+> If we're using tainted for this, I still think we should separate the Free from the Nonfree packages.
+> We could have, say, tainted/free and tainted/nonfree.
+
+Well a solution involving a new repository is a relatively simple one
+just add a non-free-tainted repository and we're done (of course this
+actually adds another four real-repositories because each will have
+release, updates, backports and updates_testing).
+
+Adding a new media however will result in a few interesting problems.
+
+I can't help bug feel that we're being somewhat blinkered here by
+already assuming that the problems of "free vs. non-free" and "tainted
+vs. non-tainted" are to be solved by a single solution.
+
+Perhaps taking a step back will allow different solutions to each
+problem present themselves.
+
+i.e. tainted has problems with both installation and distribution, but
+non-free is a purely user-led "political" choice (unless there are some
+distribution restrictions on some non-free packages?)
+
+If this is the crux of the media "conundrum" then perhaps the problems
+should be treated differently and different solutions sought?
+
+
+Col
+
+
+-- 
+
+Colin Guthrie
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