Fedora.next in 2014 -- Big Picture and Themes

[Adam Williamson]

On Sat, 2014-01-25 at 08:43 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:

> "Guidelines" is a link to
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines :
> 
> "Configuration for package managers in Fedora MUST ONLY reference the
> official Fedora repositories in their default enabled and disabled state
> (see the yum repo configuration in the fedora-release package for the
> canonical list). Unofficial and third-party repositories that contain
> only packages that it is legal for us to direct people to in Fedora (see
> the Forbidden items and Licensing:Main pages for an explanation of what
> is legal) may be shipped in %{_docdir}. The idea is that the system
> administrator would need to explicitly copy the configuration file from
> doc into the proper location on the filesystem if they want to enable
> the repository."
> 
> Presumably one is to s/Fedora/RPMFusion and Fedora/g/ when reading that
> as applying to Fusion, but still, Fusion's policies would appear to
> forbid you to ship packages that contain 'active' external repository
> configuration.

Of course, it's interesting to read the above and then reflect on the
situation of pip, rubygems, pear etc etc etc etc etc. Presumably the
term 'package managers' is being interpreted very narrowly...
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