reducing distribution CD count

[Jesse Keating]

On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 17:20 -0500, Demond James wrote:
> It would be nice if Extras could be a network of Fedora/Red Hat
> certified repos hosted by individual hardware providers and software
> developers.  FE would have one main list that tells the package update
> tool where to find the files.  That would save Red Hat from trying to
> host every software for FCx on their server. 

That would be sortof nightmarish, the legalities alone boggle my feeble
mind.

> If that buildsystem that has been talked about actually materializes,
> it can be used for this effort.  Instead of submitting the actual
> SRPM, the software/hardware vendor would host the binary rpms and FE
> would have the information to grab these rpms form that location.
> Most likely the current repo/metadata setup will have to be extended
> to handle this.  Not that I want to take away from the work of  repo
> maintainers.  Perhaps 3rd party repos could be one of the sources in
> the certified list (for some individual packages not their entire
> repo). Also, proprietary software companies like skype and adobe, who
> don't want to release their source code but want to build their
> software for Fedora/Linux can utilizes this.

Extras can only contain FOSS.

> There would have to be a certification process ofcourse along with
> some other legalities.
> 
> Just an idea!
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