Fedora/RH policies sometimes suck

[Anne Wilson]

On Tuesday 10 April 2007, Ed Greshko wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > No-one is answering the question.  Forget the OpenOffice fixation.  The
> > question is 'How do we know which of Fedora's packages have been altered
> > in this way?'  OpenOffice would be one, but there are others.  Totem
> > comes to mind, and I'd guess that there are lots more.  As Les remarked,
> > it could be indicated in the package name.
>
> The answer is, you don't know unless the maintainer has noted the "local"
> changes made.
>
> > As for how it would help, we could then decide for ourselves whether we
> > need to go to the source and build our own packages.
>
> Sounds like a RFE (Request For Enhancement).  Time to file one?

How?

Anne