Re: F38 proposal: Unfiltered Flathub (System-Wide Change proposal)

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On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 4:47 PM Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 11 2023 at 02:44:01 AM +0100, Alexander Ploumistos
> <alex.ploumistos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Flathub carries programs like VLC, mpv, yt-dlp, bundled versions of
> > ffmpeg and so on. Why is it ok now to get these from flathub, but not
> > from RPM Fusion?
>
> Hi, it's because RPM Fusion is explicitly designed to provide extra
> packages for Fedora, whereas Flathub is not. Apparently Fedora Legal is
> now OK with Flathub risk, but not with RPM Fusion risk. So there you
> have it.
>
> Specific packages from RPM Fusion might still be allowed if split into
> separate repos that don't provide access to the rest of RPM Fusion, so
> that Fedora Legal can review them individually. So far, this has only
> been used to allow the NVIDIA driver.

Thanks Michael, what a headache.
So for RPM Fusion to be included, it would have to change its
scope/definition and host a more "varied" suit of packages?
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