[Mageia-dev] About bug 6676

Thu Feb 21 20:05:22 CET 2013

Op donderdag 21 februari 2013 14:04:31 schreef Pierre-Malo Deniélou:
+> On 21/02/13 12:12, Dan Fandrich wrote:
+> > On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:02:13PM +0000, Pierre-Malo Deniélou wrote:
+> >> I would say that packages which autodownload non-free material should
+> >> be in nonfree (like get-skype). For the same reason that free
+> >> packages which Require a package in nonfree should be in nonfree.
+> > 
+> > But what happens when free content becomes available so that the non-free
+> > download is no longer required? This is unlikely in the case of Skype,
+> > but has happened with other games engines in the past.
+> 
+> If it becomes free, we push the newer version to the free repository.
+> Fairly simple :-).
+> 
+> Cheers,
+
+except that if this package is free and dependant on nonfree other package or 
+content.
+
+the moment this changes, it means that the old package becomes completely free 
+without having any changes.
+
+with games this is a possibility.
+
+with respect to this, i would prefer it to be possible to have a gaming engine 
+in free if it's free, even if there's content that is nonfree...; especially 
+if it's theorethically possible for free content to be added.
+
+it would mean that people developing free content for such a game (or starting 
+such development) would not need to enable nonfree...
+