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

[Frank Griffin]

On 01/09/2012 08:06 PM, Frank Griffin wrote:
> The mirror database probably ought to (if it doesn't already) keep 
> track of which mirrors supply nonfree and tainted (or better still, 
> check at install time), and customize mirror selection based on the 
> user's response.
This didn't quite come out as I intended.  The "or better still, check 
at install time" bit was meant to include local mirrors that wouldn't be 
in the mirror database and which were chosen explicitly in a network or 
hard-disk install, i. e. if nonfree and tainted are there, allow the 
user to use them.

I was not advocating dynamic checking of every mirror in the database to 
see if the database info concerning nonfree and tainted was correct 
(although that should probably be done before proceeding to use a mirror 
which the database says has these directories just in case it does not).