[Mageia-dev] rehashing the faac issue
Frank Griffin
ftg at roadrunner.com
Wed Oct 3 17:12:40 CEST 2012
On 10/03/2012 10:32 AM, Sander Lepik wrote:
> I have one concern for that solution, how are we gonna build free
> packages if they can use non-free packages from the same repo. It
> seems technically a bit too complicated. BS would need some rewrite or
> we would have to rename a lot of packages that are currently in non-free.
I don't understand. If a core package is free, why would it build any
differently if packages it doesn't use now are present in the repo ?
>
> But on the other hand if some packages that require faac and also some
> package that is both in non-free and in core then how do we solve this
> problem? Packages in tainted probably don't use non-free as a media
> for buildrequires.
I guess if urpmi becomes smart enough to know which license types you
want excluded, then it would use this same knowledge to filter
buildrequires.
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