On 17/01/2008, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > litterally stirring the pot. s/tt/t/ > Ask yourself, how would you fix the problems instead of only pointing > the finger at the Fedora Project and its Forbidden-Things-Policy? How > would you eliminate overlapping contents in multiple repositories > without merging the projects or without copying packages unmodified? > What binding policies would inter-repo collaboration need? And would > the volunteers like them? It's not the non-free add-ons that cause > problems, more often it's redundant/overlapping/conflicting packages. ... offered by multiple repos. > What started as just another 3rd party repo for add-on packages became > a community project, later became part of the Fedora Project, then > merged with Fedora Core and hence increased the "core" package base. > It would be natural to not replace any packages in that base > distribution. But how are you going to convince long-time productive > 3rd party packagers that they should stop packaging anything that is > found in the base dist nowadays?
