[Mageia-dev] rehashing the faac issue

[Thomas Backlund]

03.10.2012 20:59, Christian Lohmaier skrev:
> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Guillaume Rousse
> <guillomovitch at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> OK, let's vote here:
>> - how many people for using 'tainted' ?
>> - how many people for using 'non-free' ?
>
> Definitely vote for tainted.
>
> The only question is whether packages that depend on tainted stuff as
> a hard/non-optional dependency need to be themselves in tainted.
>
> I don't care, but this is the next thing to consider.
> Having stuff in free (and thus enabled for selection/installation by
> default) depending on stuff from tainted (and thus non-installable,
> since the media is not enabled/not checked for availability) might be
> more problematic than having those packages in tainted.
>

this will never happed.
one of the base rules of core media is that it _must_ be selfcontained.

--
Thomas