Package Maintainers Flags policy

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue May 19 16:32:32 UTC 2009


Seth Vidal (skvidal at fedoraproject.org) said: 
>> * If a program is needed for the main spin but Provides: 
>> Politics(flags), someone must do the work to move the flags into a 
>> subpackage that Provides the flags and patch the program to make 
>> existence of the flags optional.  As noted above, that subpackage 
>> cannot be Required from the package that is on the main spin.
>
> If we end up needing  yum plugin of some kind to handle this can I call 
> it the free-randomstan plugin?

We don't have a yum-patents plugin, or Provides(patents). Why are we
going to such lengths here?

Bill




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