wicd - better wireless network manager than NetworkManager?

[Timothy Murphy]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> Izhar Firdaus wrote:
>> 
>>>>  I don't think wicd works very well and I only built the RPM so I could
>>>>  test it out.
>> 
>>> not a good piece of code does not mean it could not be accepted in
>>> Fedora repositories. its the spec and how you install the files that
>>> need review, not the software itself.
>> 
>> I sincerely hope that applications that don't work well
>> do _not_ get into Fedora repositories.
> 
> Try coming up with a more precise definition of "not working well". I am
> pretty sure there are core pieces of the distribution that atleast some
> people would consider as not working well including the Linux kernel.
> 
> The current review guidelines are at
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/ReviewGuidelines

These guidelines say nothing about whether an application works or not.

Note that in this case Paul Johnson was advised 
to submit a package to the Fedora repository 
even though he (Paul) did not think it worked properly.

It would be disastrous if it were thought that Fedora accepted packages
known by their submitters not to work.

Imagine writing to the author of a package to complain that it did not work,
and being told, "No, it didn't work for me either".


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