19 Jul
2010
19 Jul
'10
7:27 p.m.
On 07/20/2010 05:53 AM, Michael Miles wrote:
I am finding it hard to deal with as RPMFusion and Fedora are twoseperate thing but when it blocks a update then yes I do think it is a Fedora issue.
Among the mainstream distributions, Fedora is unique in that, it doesn't have a official non-free repository or repo for patent encumbered code. Although RPM Fusion is as close as it gets, it should be noted that RPM Fusion is a third party repository with a different infrastructure. Fedora simply does not care about proprietary kernel modules or any third party kernel module for that matter. If Fedora does, the kernel maintainers, add it as a patch rather than leave it as a kernel module package. This means, if you run a third party repo, support for it within Fedora is limited.
Rahul