[packagekit] Free and non-free filter

David Zeuthen david at fubar.dk
Mon Dec 3 14:21:40 PST 2007


On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 17:18 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> I'd also recommend having an extensible scheme of what flags applies to
> the repository and start with three of them
> 
>  FREE
>  FREE_BUT_ENCUMBERED
>  NON_FREE
>  (these identifiers suck; suggest to find better ones)
> 
> For future expansion, it might even be useful to make these bitfields
> non-exclusive even though they can't be combined right now.

Notably for distros with only a single mixed repository of free,
encumbered and nonfree software they'll just avoid setting any bits at
all. That way they'll avoid any militant warnings in the PackageKit
UI :-)

     David





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