What do we want to archive with Fedora?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sat Dec 23 18:56:09 UTC 2006


Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>>>>>> "TL" == Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info> writes:
> 
> TL> I more and more tend to think we should move the kmods and the
> TL> kernels into some seperate add-on-repo.
> 
> If they're successfully banned from the merged Core+Extras, that's
> what will happen anyway.  It still won't help the kernel developers;
> their problems will persist as long as anyone loads any module not in
> the base kernel RPM.
> 
> BTW, to touch on a topic from the last FESCo meeting, this would be an
> example where it could be considered reasonable for a package to add a
> repository.

The potential legal liability issues with doing so is a blocker to this. 
We dont the resources to cross check every now and then.

Rahul




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