Are packages w/o necessary kernel modules allowed?

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Wed Oct 14 15:29:13 UTC 2009


On 10/14/2009 03:04 PM, Peter Lemenkov wrote:
> Hello All!
>
> Imagine an application, which relies on a specific kernel module. This
> module is not a part of stock Fedora kernel (at least, yet), and we
> don't allow stand-alone kernel modules.
>
> Whether or not this package can be allowed?
>
IMO: no.

Packages in Fedora should "just work" and therefore must not rely on 
anything which is not in Fedora.

Ralf




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