[packagekit] FOSScamp discussion notes

Stanislav Visnovsky visnov at suse.cz
Tue May 27 08:39:33 PDT 2008


Dňa Tuesday 27 May 2008 17:35:49 Patryk Zawadzki ste napísal:
> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Stanislav Visnovsky <visnov at suse.cz> wrote:
> > I do not think any distro has a repository that contains everything and
> > this will never be the case. That's why Build Service exists.
>
> But that's the goal of most distros. If users want foo, they will
> complain and so foo will find its way into distro. That's why using
> _only_ distro-provided packages is a good idea. Not to mention having
> many mutually-incompatible forks of RPM and different macros and
> provides (try to install a PLD Linux package on Fedora or a SUSE
> package on RedHat EL without resorting to --force --nodeps).

What about policy restrictions (e.g. licensing, non-FOSS, etc)?

Stano



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