[Mageia-dev] rehashing the faac issue

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Johnny A. Solbu at 03/10/12 14:01 did gyre and gimble:
> On Wednesday 03 October 2012 09:40, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
>> there is a consensus to use the tainted repository for 
>> hosting it, provided some minor changes to its content definition first.
> 
> If we're using tainted for this, I still think we should separate the Free from the Nonfree packages.
> We could have, say, tainted/free and tainted/nonfree.

Well a solution involving a new repository is a relatively simple one
just add a non-free-tainted repository and we're done (of course this
actually adds another four real-repositories because each will have
release, updates, backports and updates_testing).

Adding a new media however will result in a few interesting problems.

I can't help bug feel that we're being somewhat blinkered here by
already assuming that the problems of "free vs. non-free" and "tainted
vs. non-tainted" are to be solved by a single solution.

Perhaps taking a step back will allow different solutions to each
problem present themselves.

i.e. tainted has problems with both installation and distribution, but
non-free is a purely user-led "political" choice (unless there are some
distribution restrictions on some non-free packages?)

If this is the crux of the media "conundrum" then perhaps the problems
should be treated differently and different solutions sought?


Col


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