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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