Package Maintainers Flags policy

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On 05/19/2009 02:17 PM, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 13:59 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>> If you want something that's truly easier, then I propose, "flags are
>> just another piece of data provided by upstream unless US law makes us
>> care."
>
> There is another concern here.  Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) will
> likely continue the "no flags" policy, which means that any software
> within Fedora that RHEL would like to ship, the packaging will have to
> fork, and patches will have to be created.  This isn't Fedora's problem,
> but something for RHT to note when it is deciding what software to take
> and how much work will be necessary to make it RHEL worthy.
>

RHEL has to do that even with this policy.  The policy doesn't ban 
flags.  It doesn't even banish them to subpackages in all cases.

-Toshio