[Mageia-dev] Repository question: where do we put non-free+tainted RPMs?

[Anssi Hannula]

On 14.03.2011 15:30, Tux99 wrote:
> 
> 
> Quote: Anssi Hannula wrote on Mon, 14 March 2011 00:35
>>
>> On 14.03.2011 01:01, Tux99 wrote:
>>>
>>> Personally I also think 'tainted' would be the better choice than
>>> 'non-free' since potential patent issues are a more serious concern
>>> than a
>>> non-FOSS license, but tbh I think both choices are far from ideal,
>>> I
>>> believe the only really clean solution would be to create a
>>> 'tainted+non-free' repo just like PLF has.
>>
>> One option would be to add it to "tainted", but have it require a
>> dummy
>> metapackage from "non-free" repository, so that it can be only
>> installed
>> if non-free media is enabled. It might cause too much confusion,
>> though,
>> as the error message wouldn't be very clear.
> 
> I agree that the metapackage solution is impractical since it would cause
> too much confusion for users.

We could make it
Requires: nonfree-repository-required

or similar so that the error message would give a better hint of what is
wrong.

-- 
Anssi Hannula