F14: what to do about pino / twitter

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Fri Oct 1 19:50:53 UTC 2010


On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 14:52 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> This is definitely scope creeping the discussion here, but I'm coming
> round to the viewpoint that Fedora shoudn't ship any application in
> the default install whose primary purpose is to connect to proprietary
> web services, or at least not ones configured by default to do so.
> (All apps are of course free to be in the repositories).
> 
> This would dovetail nicely with making it not suck to install applications.

I don't think this is a useful direction to take the F14/pino problem
into. If we stop installing applications that are useful for users, then
the users will go somewhere else. 

'Its not pure enough for us, but you _can_ install this shit if you
really insist' is not a good enough answer...





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