Fedora's way forward

[sean]

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 13:00:10 -0500
Alan Cox <alan at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 11:50:05AM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> > 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".
> 
> So if we carry one vendor how do we decide which of a thousand rival vendors
> get into the default yum.conf.d and how do we then audit them. Shall we
> sell icons on the desktop like a certain other vendor did ?
> 
> What will you pay to have the fetchmail yum repository in by default..?
> 
> See thats not the way to go for Fedora. It might be a brief, interesting, and
> maybe profitable racket. With no non-free vendor in the default yum.conf
> the problem doesn't occur. They can all compete freely using market forces
> for your clicks and your money.
> 
> What would be useful (free or nonfree) is an xml/yum-repository type format
> that could be hooked into firefox and friends so you can 
> 
> 	"Click here to subscribe to fetchmail-pro"
> 

Already possible.  Repository maintainer publishes a link on their 
website to a rpm that installs a repo file.   Click on the link,
click "Install RPM" when prompted and Bob's your uncle.

Sean