Are packages w/o necessary kernel modules allowed?
Seth Vidal
skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Wed Oct 14 17:01:40 UTC 2009
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 10/14/2009 06:30 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 05:29:13PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>> On 10/14/2009 03:04 PM, Peter Lemenkov wrote:
>>>> Hello All!
>>>>
>>>> Imagine an application, which relies on a specific kernel module. This
>>>> module is not a part of stock Fedora kernel (at least, yet), and we
>>>> don't allow stand-alone kernel modules.
>>>>
>>>> Whether or not this package can be allowed?
>>>>
>>> IMO: no.
>>>
>>> Packages in Fedora should "just work" and therefore must not rely on
>>> anything which is not in Fedora.
>>
>> Well I don't think this should be a hard and fast rule.
> Then our opions diverge: I think it should be a hard show stopper criterion.
>
> There should not be any room for any "cripple ware" in Fedora nor should
> Fedora be a stage for "closed source loaders".
I think I agree.
This is just like shipping a package with an intentionally missing
dependency. We wouldn't allow shipping yum if rpm were missing,
right?
this sounds the same to me.
-sv
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