[Mageia-dev] rehashing the faac issue

Tue Oct 30 09:20:54 CET 2012

Le 30/10/2012 01:34, Frank Griffin a écrit :
+> On 10/29/2012 06:20 PM, Olivier Blin wrote:
+>> I would prefer B: adding a nonfree-tainted repo (+ its
+>> updates/testing/backports/debug brothers). See
+>> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2833 for a list of packages
+>> needing faac. Yes, that's overkill, it will clutter the urpmi media
+>> config UI, but that's the only clean way we have. I guess a simple way
+>> to unclutter the drakrpm-edit-media UI would be to add a drop-down
+>> menu to select between "Release + Updates" (default and most commonly
+>> used media), "Updates Testing", "Backports" (whenever it gets in), and
+>> "Debug" (for debug packages of all aforementioned groups).
+> I don't know what's involved in this, but it is certainly the optimal
+> solution.
+Creating a specific workflow (a new buildsystem queue, a new entry in 
+package manager configuration, etc...) for a category of packages with a 
+unique candidate is not precisely something I'd call 'optimal'. Unless 
+in term of complexity.
+
+Morevoer, unless someone volonteers to actually implement it in our 
+buildsystem, that's a purely hypothetical solution.
+
+-- 
+BOFH excuse #363:
+
+Out of cards on drive D:
+