Fedora's way forward

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Tue Mar 28 18:01:06 UTC 2006


Callum Lerwick <seg at haxxed.com>:
> On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 11:50 -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> > Jesse Keating <jkeating at j2solutions.net>:
> > > That makes it distributable by lame, but not REdistributable by Fedora
> > > and any Fedora derivitives.  Redistributable is the key.
> > 
> > Nah, this part's easy.  Lame brings up a yum repository, with mirrors, 
> > all legal and proper.  Fedora carries it in the stock yum.repos.d files.  
> > Post-installation instructions say "push this button to collect MP3
> > support".
> 
> Isn't this exactly what Livna is for? (Except for the shipping in the
> distribution part...)

Couldn't be livna; that's going to carry stuff we genuinely can't go near.

> Perhaps Livna should have some kind of "Make everything work"
> meta-package. Include the macromedia repo in its release package too.

See, now that's thinking along the right lines.
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