Re: Software management: Call for RFEs results!

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On 16. 10. 2013 at 10:46:01, Vít Ondruch wrote:
> Dne 16.10.2013 10:04, Jan Zelený napsal(a):
> > On 15. 10. 2013 at 09:40:41, Matthew Miller wrote:
> >> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 01:15:26PM +0200, Jan Zelený wrote:
> >>> Not to be only negative here, take a look at the COPR initiative, I
> >>> expect
> >>> it will solve the problem you are talking about by offering external
> >>> repositories that will be easily reachable from Fedora but won't be a
> >>> part
> >>> of the Fedora itself. The content of these repositories will be governed
> >>> by the same law as Fedora packages are (SW patents, ...) but technical
> >>> policies should be a lot less strict.
> >>> Would that address your concerns?
> >> 
> >> I won't speak for Michael, but I think the answer is no. COPRs fills a
> >> need, but it's _too_ wild west (no package signatures, for example). We
> >> need to support multiple language runtimes and native upstream packaging
> >> *in* Fedora.
> > 
> > Ok then, talk to FPC about this.
> 
> Sorry, this has nothing to do with FPC yet. RPM/YUM/DNF should first
> provide reasonable support. For example this issue [1] could take us
> closer as a first approximation.

Again? Really? As I wrote before, I'm not going to go for that bait yet again. 
Also this sub-thread was about policies, not about the technical side per se.

BTW great demonstration about the upstream wild west I was referring to in the 
previous email, thank you for that example.

Jan
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