[Mageia-dev] rehashing the faac issue

Thu Oct 4 16:46:14 CEST 2012

2012/10/4 Frank Griffin <ftg at roadrunner.com>:
+> On 10/04/2012 02:29 AM, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
+>>
+>> My position about mixing non-free into the core repository with a filter:
+>> That may be technically possible to integrate into urpm* and rpmdrake. But
+>> it will create confusion and problems.
+>
+>
+>> 1. Problems for mirror maintainers who do not want to mirror non-free (if
+>> we cater to the free-enthousiasts at other issues we have to do it here as
+>> well).
+>
+>
+> That's a good point, but are there actually any of these ?  Was there any
+> PLF mirror that only hosted free ?
+
+There are/were enough Mandriva mirrors who did not mirror PLF at all.
+
+>> 2. Problems for users who may not trust the filter system, they rather
+>> trust a visual separation.
+>
+>
+> I can't see this.  If they trust us to place the package correctly to start
+> with, why wouldn't they trust a filter we write ?  And if they don't trust
+> us, they're reading the license themselves anyway.
+
+A built-in filter in a software is not the same as a separate branch.
+It is a difference between seeing free and non-free in separate
+branches and just believe that there is a filter and that it is
+working all the time. There have been bugs in urpmi, why do you regard
+that filter to be perfect per se?
+It's a difference between a developer/packager who uploads a package
+to a branch by intention and a packager who just adds a tag (or may
+have forgotten to add it). A packager who just forgot to add a
+dependency is no hoax - why do you think a packager who forgot to add
+a tag is a hoax? Or a myth?
+
+-- 
+wobo
+