Brian Truter wrote: >> On Tuesday 10 April 2007 05:31, Ed Greshko wrote: >>> linuxmaillists@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >>> >>>> I just want to know what other >>>> packages are on the Fedora distro that are are missing >>>> original functionality simply because of legal issues. >>> And that would help how? Yes, you'd know what you're missing...but you >>> already know you're missing "something" so why not install the >>> OpenOffice >>> rpms and be assured of missing nothing. >>> >> No-one is answering the question. Forget the OpenOffice fixation. The >> question is 'How do we know which of Fedora's packages have been altered >> in >> this way?' OpenOffice would be one, but there are others. Totem comes to >> mind, and I'd guess that there are lots more. As Les remarked, it could >> be >> indicated in the package name. >> >> As for how it would help, we could then decide for ourselves whether we >> need >> to go to the source and build our own packages. >> >> Anne >> -- >> fedora-list mailing list >> fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx >> To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > Personally, I agree with this sentiment 100%. I would like to know which > packages are modified by RedHat, and differ from the creator's original. Great. Bring it up on the fedora-devel-list.
