Package Maintainers Flags policy

Toshio Kuratomi a.badger at gmail.com
Tue May 19 16:50:00 UTC 2009


On 05/19/2009 09:32 AM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 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?
>
Wouldn't a policy on Provides: Policy(patents) have to originate with 
rpmfusion?

-Toshio




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