Packaging idea (Re: What next?)

[seth vidal]

> Well, there isn't much added technical complexity here. This is more
> or less a glorified "download a .repo file for your distribution and
> put it in your /etc/yum.repos.d" directory with a Nautilus plugin. And
> yes, I'm pretty sure a lot of people will not bother with Extras, if
> only because:
> 
> a. They don't care to jump through all the hoops involved.
the hoops are getting lower and easier to overcome.


> b. They don't want to bind themselves with any sort of a contract with Red Hat.

the cla is very much like the asf's licensing agreement - nothing really
special in it at all.

> c. Their software is licensed so that it cannot be put in Extras.

yep. that's the use case I figured from the .fap file you were
describing before.

-sv