[Mageia-dev] [RFC] Moving various packages/codecs to tainted

Juan Luis Baptiste juancho at mageia.org
Tue Jan 10 01:54:49 CET 2012


On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Anssi Hannula <anssi at mageia.org> wrote:
> I'm absolutely fine with either moving codecs to core or tainted, as
> long as we are at least somewhat consistent in what is in core and what
> is in tainted. However, I do not really like the reasoning "we do it
> like mandriva did no matter if it is sensible or not".
>
> I'd possibly understand "we do it like mandriva did because they didn't
> apparently have problems with these pkgs", but it IMHO wouldn't really
> fly as we could just s/mandriva/ubuntu/ in that statement (and Ubuntu is
> much more prominent than mdv IMO) and then everything would be in core...
>

IMHO, for sake's of simplicity and user friendliness, we should leave
everything in core until there's a real threat from someone about
patents. Surely if it appears some day,  we wouldn't be the first ones
to be approached which would leave us plenty of time to correct this
issue and move affected packages to tainted.


-- 
Juancho


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