-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/08/2014 01:32 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Rex Dieter <rdieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx > <mailto:rdieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > Stephen Gallagher wrote: > >> Ask yourself which is more important to most users: 1) My OS is >> perfectly maintainable by engineers. or 2) My OS lets me install >> the software I need without hassle. >> >> Offering users a slightly-less stringent repository such as this >> makes sense. > > Adding repos definitely should not be taken lightly. Frankly, if 2 > is really something worth doing, then perhaps also the (overly?) > stringent policies need rethinking. > > I freely admit there's definitely some gray area here, and maybe > another repo is indeed the right (ie, least-bad) approach. > > > I agree. I'm working on several review requests from the same > developer that "bundle" the same code across his projects (an > xmlrpc implementation so each program can talk to each other). He > doesn't want to split it out into an independent library because he > doesn't want to support its use outside of his own programs, that > said I've been "working" with him to clean it up but it's a long > slow process and the software is perfectly usable as is. > > It's probably not feasible, but If there was a way to track > downloads/installs so I would know how many people are using the > software it would give me an idea if it's worth the trouble to > "fix" the package to the guidelines or leave it in this > repository. In that specific case, my recommendation would be for him to have one of his packages create a subpackage that dropped that library in a non-system location (/usr/lib[64]/myproject-shared/mylib.foo) and then the other packages can link to that library directly. Putting a library in a private location is a clear sign that other projects shouldn't attemp to use it (and that you make no claims whatsoever about its suitability for any other purpose). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlNEOP0ACgkQeiVVYja6o6OkEgCfbpdmaPIJDPslgFSGBO5pNorM E5gAoKdGM1QcaDWOcdu4/3rM6kf4TGcm =bPiH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
