Fedora Board Strategic Working Group

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:06:15AM -0500, Jon Stanley wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:49 PM, Matt Domsch <matt at domsch.com> wrote:
> 
> > Spins (today) have the technical implementation detail that all their
> > packages must come from the one repository that is Everything, which
> > might limit what they can do if they have needs that conflict with the
> > "default spin" (i.e. Desktop).  I think there can be ways devised (by
> > FESCo, Spins SIG, Rel-Eng, or other interested parties) to address
> > this, if it proves to be a problem in practice.  I don't know if it
> > is - perhaps members of the Spins SIG can enlighten us.
> 
> Everything consists of the entirety of software that is available in
> Fedora, not restricted to one DE (maybe you're thinking the Fedora
> directory here?).  We do (and should) require that all software in a
> branded spin come from the Everything repo. However, a remix is free
> to mix and match from whatever sources it wants, but it cannot be
> branded Fedora.

There are potential issues.  For instance, when the Desktop spin wanted to
move to PolicyKit-1.0 and said that they'd veto a PoicyKit-compat package to
allow KDE applications to work.  Or when zope was dropped from the
repositories because it wasn't ported to python2.5 and we didn't want to
have a python-2.4 compat package.  There have also been times when certain
compilation options on one package were needed to allow other packages to
function but, because of the dependencies that the compilation options
brought in, that package didn't want to do so.

-Toshio
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