-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am 21.08.2009 17:10, schrieb Adam Jackson: > On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 16:26 +0200, Jochen Schmitt wrote: > >> - From my point of view. This cases demostrate, that we need a >> clarification about the requirements which a package has to >> fullfill for inclusssion into Fedora. > > I don't disagree, but... > >> Package which are only useable if you have installed a package >> which is not part of Fedora may not allow for Fedora. This is the >> argument why we not contributes eumulators. In common emulators >> requires special ROM images which contains copyright content. > > I think this is a faulty generalization. > > X is a network protocol. vdpau and xnvctrl applications can be > perfectly functional running on a Fedora machine with no nvidia > driver installed, if they happen to be talking to some _other_ > machine somewhere in the world that does support those extensions. > One might argue that this is a trivial distinction, and that it > still requires some non-free blob to be made to work, but to make > that assertion you're basically saying that interoperability is > only acceptable if there's some free implementation of what you're > interoperating with. If you follow that idea through, you end up > removing pilot-link, libgpod... > > The emulator rule-of-thumb makes sense to the extent that the > emulator itself is the end goal. If the only reason you could want > it installed is to play some arcade game ROM then there's pretty > clearly no interoperability argument to be made. But libvdpau > isn't the end goal; the VDPAU app is the end goal. libvdpau is > just how you get there. > > The emulator RoT also assumes that the copyright holder of the > magic bits doesn't _want_ you to use them. NVIDIA clearly wants > people to use VDPAU. > > - ajax Thank you for your explaination. I think we should make a distinct betwenn a regquirement which must install on the same machine and another requirement which is provides by a remote system. Best Regards: Jochen Schmitt -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iJwEAQECAAYFAkqOumsACgkQZLAIBz9lVu9MoQP/ZNjwRUZSEUFxRj19pmjKocky 4OfA8yE8k15ZSEGr46wy7aMTshSnN0Ccw3hxwM1Qj+Z/g21XVJlXOK4EyFIz28Mt voBhqg2nYOBbArbBfLs+Jp3BnVZ1WIUdhTtWyDfdo6l5si61QYc5QGL2ZATBaHRT 7BYhDbiZFWxevACyRPE= =QIRs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
