Once upon a time, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> said: > Randy Barlow wrote: > > It is a disservice to our users to provide them with unmaintained > > packages, > > It is a disservice to our users to NOT provide them with unmaintained > packages. If, as a user, you NEED a package, you would rather have it > present but unmaintained than not have it at all! I disagree. A lot of users don't really understand the nature of free software, distributions, etc. If they install Fedora and an unmaintained package doesn't work for them, they tend to blame Fedora and look at other distributions (or blame Linux and go back to Windows or Mac). Maybe eventually they realize the particular application is crap and circle back to Fedora, but they often don't. A distribution is not supposed to be just a big dump of software, hopefully some of it working (like the early days of Linux where everybody just uploaded their programs to a few big FTP sites); it's supposed to be a system of things that are usable. Even if someone does try to work with Fedora on a broken application, who is going to get the bug reports? Who is going to respond? No response still looks bad to the average user. -- Chris Adams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
