On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 01:02:05PM -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>>>>> "RWMJ" == Richard W M Jones
<rjones(a)redhat.com> writes:
RWMJ> So I feel unfortunately this is a bad case.
Except that it's actually a spectacularly good case, because it
perfectly illustrates the problem. Someone thinks this is a good
package and wants it in Fedora. (Either that or they're actively
trolling us to see what crap they can push through the review process.)
It doesn't violate any guidelines. You happen to not like the content.
Does that means the package stays out? I don't personally want to be
the quality czar, but I also don't want to see people pushing their
vacation photos into Fedora.
No, I still think it's a bad case.
Consider the cosmos screensaver that we carry:
$ rpm -qf /usr/share/backgrounds/cosmos
gnome-screensaver-2.28.0-1.fc12.x86_64
Those are some really beautiful NASA photographs, and I don't think
anyone would object to the 3.9 MB consumed by those lovely pictures,
particularly if you are in any way interested by space technology or
science.
I think if these were really beautiful pictures of London, no one
would object to 2.6 MB. But because it's a bunch of rather crap
pictures, it makes a bad case for what I think could potentially be a
wonderful thing.
Isn't there already a screensaver that will work from a directory
of
pictures? Isn't that good enough to cover all of these cases without us
actually having to carry a bunch of pictures?
A directory of pictures isn't a hand-chosen set of great photographs
that get installed from a single yum command.
Rich.
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