On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 17:20 -0500, Demond James wrote: > It would be nice if Extras could be a network of Fedora/Red Hat > certified repos hosted by individual hardware providers and software > developers. FE would have one main list that tells the package update > tool where to find the files. That would save Red Hat from trying to > host every software for FCx on their server. That would be sortof nightmarish, the legalities alone boggle my feeble mind. > If that buildsystem that has been talked about actually materializes, > it can be used for this effort. Instead of submitting the actual > SRPM, the software/hardware vendor would host the binary rpms and FE > would have the information to grab these rpms form that location. > Most likely the current repo/metadata setup will have to be extended > to handle this. Not that I want to take away from the work of repo > maintainers. Perhaps 3rd party repos could be one of the sources in > the certified list (for some individual packages not their entire > repo). Also, proprietary software companies like skype and adobe, who > don't want to release their source code but want to build their > software for Fedora/Linux can utilizes this. Extras can only contain FOSS. > There would have to be a certification process ofcourse along with > some other legalities. > > Just an idea! -- Jesse Keating RHCE (geek.j2solutions.net) Fedora Legacy Team (www.fedoralegacy.org) GPG Public Key (geek.j2solutions.net/jkeating.j2solutions.pub) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating
