[Fedora-packaging] Re: Firmware packaging, v2

Jason L Tibbitts III tibbs at math.uh.edu
Mon Feb 26 01:03:44 UTC 2007


>>>>> "MD" == Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch at dell.com> writes:

MD> One can argue Fedora shouldn't be in the business of distributing
MD> these, and I'd agree.  (related to another thread on FAB, there
MD> shouldn't be a problem with a hardware distributor adding a
MD> package to their installs that provides a yum repo file pointing
MD> at their tree of firmware though.)

Well, I've made that argument before and lost.  Others couldn't see
any reason to have a package that sets up a repository, although it
seems pretty obvious to me.

 - J<




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