Are packages w/o necessary kernel modules allowed?

[Seth Vidal]

On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Ralf Corsepius wrote:

> On 10/14/2009 06:30 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 05:29:13PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>> 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.
>> 
>> Well I don't think this should be a hard and fast rule.
> Then our opions diverge: I think it should be a hard show stopper criterion.
>
> There should not be any room for any "cripple ware" in Fedora nor should 
> Fedora be a stage for "closed source loaders".

I think I agree.


This is just like shipping a package with an intentionally missing 
dependency. We wouldn't allow shipping yum if rpm were missing, 
right?

this sounds the same to me.

-sv