Summary of the 2008-04-08 Packaging Committee meeting

[Rahul Sundaram]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> 
> But the point of having hardware and an operating system distribution is 
> to run the applications you want.  What do you do when the 
> application(s) you want are in those third party repositories?

As I said already, there has several workarounds suggested by me and 
other people. Fedora is a community supported distribution. If you are 
merely a consumer, you get to live with what the project provides or 
choose a alternative that better suits what you need.

When people step up to be contributions, they can work with the project 
to bring in those applications and integrate it with the Fedora 
repository and/or work with the third party repositories on other 
potential solutions. What you can't do is badge into a development list 
of a community project and demand things be changed for free according 
to your convenience. Well you can. People will just ignore that.

Rahul