Re: Package Maintainers Flags policy

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On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 14:56 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> 
> It came across as implementable, not as understandability:
> """"
> There is an easier option 3, which is no flags in Fedora period,
> regardless of what spin.  Far easier to implement.
> """

Sorry, I obviously typed without thinking (:

> >  It
> > may be more difficult to enact, but it is a far sight easier than trying
> > to figure out what other packages might require your flags, and if any
> > of those packages are on something called a "default spin", which can
> > change it's contents at any time.
> 
> And here you're again arguing about implementation, not about 
> understandability.
> 
> Where we deal with implementation, we deal with Bill's note about 
> "easy".  It's easier to trust that your packagers haven't packaged 
> anything that has flags than to write a script that looks for the 
> Provides (or filename) in the package set but it's not necessarily right 
> for Fedora.
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