On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 13:00:10 -0500 Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 11:50:05AM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > all legal and proper. Fedora carries it in the stock yum.repos.d files. > > Post-installation instructions say "push this button to collect MP3 > > support". > > So if we carry one vendor how do we decide which of a thousand rival vendors > get into the default yum.conf.d and how do we then audit them. Shall we > sell icons on the desktop like a certain other vendor did ? > > What will you pay to have the fetchmail yum repository in by default..? > > See thats not the way to go for Fedora. It might be a brief, interesting, and > maybe profitable racket. With no non-free vendor in the default yum.conf > the problem doesn't occur. They can all compete freely using market forces > for your clicks and your money. > > What would be useful (free or nonfree) is an xml/yum-repository type format > that could be hooked into firefox and friends so you can > > "Click here to subscribe to fetchmail-pro" > Already possible. Repository maintainer publishes a link on their website to a rpm that installs a repo file. Click on the link, click "Install RPM" when prompted and Bob's your uncle. Sean -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
