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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] rehashing the faac issue</H1>
    <B>Colin Guthrie</B> 
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<PRE>'Twas brillig, and Johnny A. Solbu at 03/10/12 14:01 did gyre and gimble:
&gt;<i> On Wednesday 03 October 2012 09:40, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> there is a consensus to use the tainted repository for 
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> hosting it, provided some minor changes to its content definition first.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> If we're using tainted for this, I still think we should separate the Free from the Nonfree packages.
</I>&gt;<i> We could have, say, tainted/free and tainted/nonfree.
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Well a solution involving a new repository is a relatively simple one
just add a non-free-tainted repository and we're done (of course this
actually adds another four real-repositories because each will have
release, updates, backports and updates_testing).

Adding a new media however will result in a few interesting problems.

I can't help bug feel that we're being somewhat blinkered here by
already assuming that the problems of &quot;free vs. non-free&quot; and &quot;tainted
vs. non-tainted&quot; are to be solved by a single solution.

Perhaps taking a step back will allow different solutions to each
problem present themselves.

i.e. tainted has problems with both installation and distribution, but
non-free is a purely user-led &quot;political&quot; choice (unless there are some
distribution restrictions on some non-free packages?)

If this is the crux of the media &quot;conundrum&quot; then perhaps the problems
should be treated differently and different solutions sought?


Col


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