Fedora Extras packaging beta software into production repos, why?

[Horst H. von Brand]

Denis Leroy <denis at poolshark.org> wrote:

[...]

> And on the subject of a wiki page with available 3rd party
> repositories, it certainly should only contain repos that are
> *designed* to be add-on repos over FC and FE, in that order.

If they are listed officially as "compatible with Fedora", what makes them
"less official" than Extras? Better fold the packages into Extras, and be
done with it. Unless they ship packages that Fedora can't/won't ship... in
which case Fedora could end up in legal hot water for telling people how to
break the law/go against the licenses (or at least end up in a very
unconfortable position wrt its own guidelines).

Perhaps it should be made easier to join Extras?
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