[Fedora-packaging] Firmware packaging, v2

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 04:29 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Feb 23, 2007, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > 1) Firmware packages are given the Group: tag of Firmware
> 
> > 2) The License tag for any firmware that disallows modification should
> >    be set to:
>       
> >    "Redistributable firmware, no modification permitted"
> 
> Any chance of getting all non-Free firmware to Require: some empty
> package (say freedom-loss or proprietary-crap :-) such that:
> 
> - one could yum erase this package and end up without any non-Free
> Software installed, and
> 
> - one could easily veirfy that custom distros with a subset of the
> complete Fedora package set don't include any such proprietary
> packages?

I actually like this idea.

-sv