[Mageia-dev] rehashing the faac issue

[Wolfgang Bornath]

2012/10/4 Frank Griffin <ftg at roadrunner.com>:
> On 10/04/2012 02:29 AM, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
>>
>> My position about mixing non-free into the core repository with a filter:
>> That may be technically possible to integrate into urpm* and rpmdrake. But
>> it will create confusion and problems.
>
>
>> 1. Problems for mirror maintainers who do not want to mirror non-free (if
>> we cater to the free-enthousiasts at other issues we have to do it here as
>> well).
>
>
> That's a good point, but are there actually any of these ?  Was there any
> PLF mirror that only hosted free ?

There are/were enough Mandriva mirrors who did not mirror PLF at all.

>> 2. Problems for users who may not trust the filter system, they rather
>> trust a visual separation.
>
>
> I can't see this.  If they trust us to place the package correctly to start
> with, why wouldn't they trust a filter we write ?  And if they don't trust
> us, they're reading the license themselves anyway.

A built-in filter in a software is not the same as a separate branch.
It is a difference between seeing free and non-free in separate
branches and just believe that there is a filter and that it is
working all the time. There have been bugs in urpmi, why do you regard
that filter to be perfect per se?
It's a difference between a developer/packager who uploads a package
to a branch by intention and a packager who just adds a tag (or may
have forgotten to add it). A packager who just forgot to add a
dependency is no hoax - why do you think a packager who forgot to add
a tag is a hoax? Or a myth?

-- 
wobo