RFE: more FC4 Requests

[Michael A. Peters]

On 11/16/2004 01:13:45 AM, Troels Arvin wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 00:35:00 -0500, Phillip Compton wrote:
> 
> > scribus - DTP
> > inkscape - Vector Graphics
> > lcms - Color Management
> 
> I don't know about lcms, but the others sound like candidates for
> Fedora
> Extras, as they aren't exactly "core" components.
> 
> By the way: I consider it _very_ sad that the Fedora Extras project
> doesn't collaborate with projects like FreshRPMS, Dag's repository,
> etc.
> (sometimes collectively called 'rpmforge'). Such lack of  
> collaboration
> makes it very difficult for me to see Fedora Extras as a "community
> project" - which is its very purpose, as I understand it.

In a nutshell the reason as I see it is this -

Fedora has a protocol that they follow regarding package naming,  
package building, and package testing which is very clearly outlined in  
the Fedora documentations. This involves an outline QA process packages  
have to go to.

For Fedora to "cooperate" with third party packagers, they would need  
to throw that process to the side for packages that have to be redone  
in order to work with dag or freshrpm's etc. - and that's a bad thing,  
the policy and guidelines they have are there for a reason, and that  
reason is to provide a stable set of packages for those users who need  
a stable repository to work with.

Fedora already offers a way for these other repositories to integrate  
with Fedora - they can introduce themselves to the list, and submit  
packages to the fedora repository, going through the Fedora QA process  
to do so. That is how the Fedora community works.

If dag and freshrpms's etc. want to cooperate together, that's fine -  
that's even good. But Fedora has a published established way for  
integrating with Fedora, and Fedora can not be expected to test all  
possible scenarios of packages installed from third parties.