libproxy addition to comps for F-13

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Mon Apr 12 22:57:32 UTC 2010


On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 00:28 +0200, Nicolas Chauvet wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to discuss the possibility to add the patch described in
> this report in comps for F-13 and later.
> https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/3565
> 
> The basic idea is to make libproxy default installed plugins more in
> shape with the actual set of installed packages for a given system. 
> That, so application using libproxy will discover or receive the proxy
> configuration automatically as soon as they use system settings.
> 
> As I agree that this change appears rather late in the Fedora process,
> and libproxy is indeed in the crithpath for updates (why actually?!),
> I would give an opportunity to discuss this more widely.
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libproxy-0.3.1-4.fc13
> 
> So the other question is : Is there any problem in adding this change
> to comps for F-13 ?
> https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/attachment/ticket/3565/adds-libproxy2comps.patch
> 
> As a record, on a default install and without this change: libproxy is
> pointless. 
> But If one want to use libproxy, he will have to figure out which
> packages to install manually. This patch assume a reasonable default,
> so having libproxy installed just make sense.


I'm in favor of this change. 



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