[Mageia-dev] rehashing the faac issue

Thu Oct 4 16:54:46 CEST 2012

On Thursday 04 October 2012 13:23, Frank Griffin wrote:
+> > 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 ? 
+
+Because software have bugs, even filters, whereas physical separation is not prone to the same errors.
+A filter can stop working or work incorrectly, but a repo separation does not start to install from a deactivated or removed/not imported repo. Nor will a bug suddenly activate or add a nonfree repo.
+
+> And if they don't trust us, they're reading the license themselves anyway.
+
+That's not an easy task for commandline users. "urpmq -i foo" does not show the license tag.
+
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+Johnny A. Solbu
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