[Bug 226377] Merge Review: rpm

[Christopher Aillon]

Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>>  What I have 
>> suggested to Robert in the past was quite simple:  If he has a package, 
>> and if it can merit inclusion into Fedora on its TECHNICAL MERITS alone, 
>> then why would I do anything to stop it?
> 
> If using the packages does harm and/or confuses users it might be better
> for everyone to not ship it in our default repository, as both things
> will lead to a bad user experience, which is IMHO not what we want.
> 
> To give an example outside of the current rpm problem: We had a package
> review where someone wanted to get Sax2 (Suse's configuration tool for
> X11) into Fedora. There the questions was raised if it makes sense to
> ship it in Fedora, as the configurations files it writes might not have
> been as good as those from s-c-d. There were also concerns that the sax2
> config files might break other fedora tools or packages that rely on the
> format written by s-c-d.
> 
> That problem never got solved properly, as the submitter stopped his
> efforts when above concerns were raised.

That is Max's point exactly.  The review was halted on technical merit. 
  If it ever did meet the technical requirements of matching the format 
of s-c-d, it might have gone through.  Thankfully that's pretty moot now 
that the X guys are making things JustWork(tm).