Summary of the 2008-04-08 Packaging Committee meeting

[Jesse Keating]

On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 17:06 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> The bigger issue for me is that you also can't or won't include 
> everything that those external repos provide.  That shouldn't be a 
> surprise to anyone and it makes the incompatibilities a big problem. 
> It's one thing to 'not endorse' anything outside and something very 
> different to actively break their attempts to provide additional content 
> for your users which is what forking their upstream packages amounts to, 
> given the limitations of yum in sorting this stuff out.

Once again, Fedora is a self service distribution.  It /could/ if
it /wanted/ to and the "want" has to come from the community of
contributors.  You yourself could be one.  You choose not to.  The blame
lies just as much with you as anybody else.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
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