On 5/12/20 11:55 AM, Felix Schwarz wrote:
Am 12.05.20 um 12:32 schrieb Ty Young:
> Right, I figured it was some Fedora policy and not up to you. I suppose I
> should have been more clear there. Sorry for any confusion, it was aimed at
> the Fedora project as a whole as this is a Fedora issue.
This is not a Fedora issue but a consequence of Fedora's core values. You not
agree with it but "building from source" is so fundamental that it does not
make sense to even start a discussion about it on fedora-devel.
Yes, exactly. It's not a Java thing, it's a free software thing. If
we just grab binaries how do we know that they respect the basic
freedoms?
I suggest you read up on the rationale behind that policy (which is
why I linked the policy document in the first place).
I understand that missing components/features due to the source
requirement are annoying but Fedora (and other distros) decided to
take the "high road" here and actually fix stuff instead of shipping
whatever upstream came up with.
Quite. The high road is never the easy road. Thank you.
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