remove fedora-usermgmt?
Mike McGrath
mmcgrath at redhat.com
Tue Mar 6 14:29:37 UTC 2007
Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:06:51PM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>
>> On 06.03.2007 11:48, Axel Thimm wrote:
>>
>>> [...]
>>> No special solutions, please, I agree - ban fedora-usermgmt from EPEL.
>>>
>> "ban fedora-usermgmt from EPEL" for me is a special EPEL solution, as it
>> differs from the Fedora solution.
>>
>> That way lie dragons!
>>
>> I'd like to avoid them -- every single rule around packaging that is
>> different between Fedora and EPEL will make life harder for users and
>> packagers that are active in both camps, as they have to keep different
>> rule sets in mind. I'd like to avoid that as much as possible.
>>
>>
>>>>> as no one really seems to be interested (or are you volunteering to
>>>>> take the lead).
>>>>>
>>>> Then I'd say the problem can't be that big.
>>>>
>>> That's a joke, right?
>>>
>> Unsure. Yes, in parts, no in other parts -- as Rex iirc said: there
>> seems to be a lot FUD about "fedora-usermgmt" around.
>>
>> If the problem if so big that you want to get is solved then please go
>> and solve it in Fedora (hey, you are in the Packaging Committee!), and
>> it will be solved for EPEL that way, too.
>>
>> Taking a EPEL-shortcut would IMHO be plain wrong.
>>
>
> Ok, how about we simply vote on that and let it R.I.P.?
>
Vote proposed. I predict a very vocal minority.
-Mike
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