On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 04:29 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
On Feb 23, 2007, Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> 1) Firmware packages are given the Group: tag of Firmware
> 2) The License tag for any firmware that disallows modification should
> be set to:
> "Redistributable firmware, no modification permitted"
Any chance of getting all non-Free firmware to Require: some empty
package (say freedom-loss or proprietary-crap :-) such that:
- one could yum erase this package and end up without any non-Free
Software installed, and
- one could easily veirfy that custom distros with a subset of the
complete Fedora package set don't include any such proprietary
packages?
The entire goal of standardizing on a specific license tag be used is
that it's easy to have a simple script for query/removing/installing or
whatnot and _not_ have to do magic packages like this. Maintaining such
a package is always and without fail an absolute nitemare to do.
Jeremy