2010/9/21 Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx>: > On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 08:49 +0000, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote: >> Sounds like the only way to package Firefox under such a backport scheme >> would be to bundle Gecko etc. > > Yup. In MDV, Firefox isn't/wasn't allowed under the backports > guidelines. I think this makes sense given how important it is and how > easy it is to break other stuff by touching Firefox. Some stuff just > isn't right for a backports repo. It seems to me that backports repo should be treated on a different basis by developers and users than any other official repos. I do not expect that it will have the normal technical support. I do not expect that the installation of package from the will not break anything. This should be something like "use at your own risk if you want some newer packages, but do not expect that it will work completely without any problem with official Fedora repo and other repos like rpmfusion etc" > -- > Adam Williamson > Fedora QA Community Monkey > IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org > http://www.happyassassin.net Regards, Michal -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
