Proposal to reduce anti-bundling requirements

Eric Griffith egriffith92 at gmail.com
Fri Sep 11 13:33:22 UTC 2015


On Sep 11, 2015 9:27 AM, "Zdenek Kabelac" <zkabelac at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Dne 11.9.2015 v 15:22 Eric Griffith napsal(a):
>>
>>
>> On Sep 11, 2015 9:03 AM, "Zdenek Kabelac" <zkabelac at redhat.com
>> <mailto:zkabelac at redhat.com>> wrote:
>>  >
>>  > Dne 11.9.2015 v 14:46 Germano Massullo napsal(a):
>>  >
>>  > Fault #1
>>  > (I've already complained that usage of rawhide & rpmfusion is getting
silly)
>>  >
>>  >
>> How is the usage getting silly? *genuinely confused* Id love for Fedora
to
>> have everything in the repos (A la Arch) but for legal and philosophical
>> reasons it's not possible.
>
>
> My complain here is about packaging libraries.
> And just because a library has been upgraded from version .so.2 to
version .so.4  and you can't have both (as the new one replaces old one by
Fedora policy) - you cannot normally use rpmfusion.
>
> The best part is - the library itself is mostly useless - but because of
packaging policy - if you want to use rpmfusion - you have to basically
build
> lib-compat-like (Fedora way) libraries yourself - that's what I call
silly....
>
> It has absolutely nothing to do with any 'legal' issues...
>
Aaaaah okay, i was confused on what exactly you were commenting on being
silly. Thank you for clarifying.
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