On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 15:51 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Convention here translates into fuzzy undocumented packaging > guidelines. Right. There's loads of guidelines that people follow every day, but we don't need to make laws about them. When you stand on an escalator, it's polite to stand to one side so people in a rush can walk up the side. There's no law saying you have to do that, but it's common courtesy to copy everyone else and stand to one side. People tend to get pretty pissed off if kids are doing handstands on escalators, even though there is no law saying you can't. > If we truly want to enforce something, we need to make it a packaging > guideline that everyone will more consistently follow. > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#Guideline_Change_Procedure If we have to ratify every small detail of building a distro using a formal means, we've become Debian. In my opinion Debian is dying because of all the politics and guidelines, and Fedora shouldn't go down the same route. This is a simple case where I'm asking someone politely to do the same thing as everyone else. Like a gentleman asking a person doing handstands on escalators to stop doing that and stand to one side like everyone else. > If you need more help, feel free to ask. I'll support anyone proposing guidelines, but I don't want to spend any more of my time on this trivial issue. It would be like campaigning to ban people doing handstands on escalators, making me look as ridiculous in the process. Richard. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
