Summary/Minutes from today's FESCo Meeting (2015-10-07)

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 12:06:31AM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> > * #1483 Decision on bundling policy in the Fedora Package Collection
> >   (sgallagh, 18:11:40)
> >   * LINK: http://paste.fedoraproject.org/276064/44243383/ is sgallaghs
> >     proposal without the critpath distinction  (nirik, 18:43:49)
> >   * AGREED: Adjust the packaging policy as described in
> >     http://paste.fedoraproject.org/276064/44243383/ (+5, 3, -1)
> >     (sgallagh, 18:57:44)
> >   * ACTION: tibbs|w to inform FPC and work on removing the anti-bundling
> >     stuff from the guidelines  (sgallagh, 18:59:17)
> 
> Ewww! :-(
> 
> This opens the door to all kinds of duplication, waste of disk space, waste 
> of RAM, symbol conflicts and unfixed security issues!

I agree - the new wording does appear to give in to poor programming
practices.

Rich.

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