[Mageia-dev] rehashing the faac issue

Thu Oct 4 19:13:08 CEST 2012

On 10/04/2012 12:22 PM, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
+>
+> Yes, that's why I prefer the separation of free and non-free repos.
+> IMHO opinion it is easier to have non-free visually out of the way for
+> the FOSS enthousiasts and it's just one click (actually 2 including
+> non-free/updates) for the users who want it all.
+>
+> Furthermore there is another reason to keep the repos separated: it is
+> Mageias written intention to support and advocate FOSS. Separating
+> non-free and FOSS is a visible demonstration of this intention. Mixing
+> both in the same repo is the opposite.
+>
+As you said earlier, it's not black and white, but shades of gray.
+
+We already choose to do a lot of stuff that is counter to FOSS (LiveCD, 
+having nonfree to begin with, etc.), and that's all done to make a 
+distro that serves FOSS and not-so-FOSS (I won't say non-FOSS here) alike.
+
+ From the various threads in this ML over the course of the last year, 
+there seems to be consensus to expand our non-FOSS footprint in the 
+interest of usability as long as we still make FOSS possible for those 
+who want it.
+
+Once you start mixing for pragmatic reasons, the basis for future 
+decisions becomes pragmatic rather than political.
+
+Witness your own vote here for "tainted" over "nonfree", because you 
+find more value in keeping nonfree untainted than you do in keeping 
+tainted free.  It's all a matter of degree.
+
+