Fedora/RH policies sometimes suck

[Brian Truter]

> On Tuesday 10 April 2007 05:31, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> linuxmaillists at charter.net wrote:
>>
>> > I just want to know what other
>> > packages are on the Fedora distro that are are missing
>> > original functionality simply because of legal issues.
>>
>> And that would help how?  Yes, you'd know what you're missing...but you
>> already know you're missing "something" so why not install the
>> OpenOffice
>> rpms and be assured of missing nothing.
>>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Anne
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Personally, I agree with this sentiment 100%. I would like to know which
packages are modified by RedHat, and differ from the creator's original.