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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] Repository question: where do we put	non-free+tainted RPMs?</H1>
    <B>Florian Hubold</B> 
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    <I>Wed Jul  6 11:57:48 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>Am 17.03.2011 09:14, schrieb Samuel Verschelde:
&gt;<i> Le mardi 15 mars 2011 21:30:05, Michael Scherer a &#233;crit :
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Le mardi 15 mars 2011 &#224; 20:34 +0100, Tux99 a &#233;crit :
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Quote: Michael Scherer wrote on Tue, 15 March 2011 20:21
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Because some people do not care about patents and using tainted stuff,
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> but do care about free licenses and do care about what it bring to
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> them.
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> I do. Stormi do ( or seems to do ). And I think that given we decided
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> to
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> split PLF for that precise reason, there is more than 2 of us to care.
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Putting tainted packages in nonfree just causes more confusion
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> IMHO.
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> As much as the reverse, it all depends on what you tell to people
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> about
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> the repository, what they expect and what you prefer to highlight.
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> That's exactly why I suggested earlier in this thread that we need an
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> additional repo for 'tainted+non-free' packages, that's the only solution
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> that would satisfy every preference people might have and at the same
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> time make things clear for everyone (packagers, mirror maintainers,
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> users).
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Instead of moving stuff in non-free, you move them in non-free +
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> tainted. That just bring more headaches, and more complexity.
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> That's not a solution.
</I>&gt;<i> Well, that would be a real solution if we really wanted to flag those packages
</I>&gt;<i> both as tainted and as non-free, as some people give more importance to the
</I>&gt;<i> fact that it is tainted and others to the fact that it is non-free.
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> For now, I would propose either to put that package in non-free, explain to
</I>&gt;<i> users that non-free packages may be tainted too, and envision after Mageia 1
</I>&gt;<i> to add a new media if the current solution really doesn't work, and maybe
</I>&gt;<i> require a meta-package from tainted  OR put it in tainted, explain that
</I>&gt;<i> tainted can contain non-free packages, and require a dummy package from non-
</I>&gt;<i> free, as Anssi proposed (on a second thought, I think that second option is
</I>&gt;<i> better).
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> Can we reach a decision ? (add this question to the next packagers meeting ?)
</I>*bump*
As there was no decision reached, not even a concensus, how do we proceed now?
As there is the next package (HandBrake) which also falls under both 
categories, tainted and non-free.

The option of moving such packages to non-free, and requiring a package from 
tainted (or vice-versa)
which explains shortly via a README.urpmi about the problem, and to enable the 
missing repo,
sounds not that bad. (If you really want to go that far.)

Regards
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