Ralf Corsepius wrote:
On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 11:19 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 05:01:07AM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
As I see it, community contributed Fedora is only able to handle
"trivial, mass-market" packages. I'd presume that most "non-trivial
packages", which currently are part of Core and 100% under RH control
(E.g. GCC, kernel, glibc, perl ...) would have never made it into FE.
That's not so obvious since, although they are very complicated packages
they are also very widely used.
Are you seriously telling me you would accept a package which has 30 or
more patches applied?
You would tell the maintainer to tell upstream to fix them.
Not in all cases. Sometimes there are valid reasons to patch. Nobody
wants to adds patches and creates additional maintenance work for
themselves for fun. Many patches Any critical package in your list
would have definitely passed review in FE because of their critical
nature and popularity.
You can see many such packages going through merge review. Complication
in the packages might slow down the review process but it would happen
nevertheless. For obscure packages the reviews might just not happen at
all.
Rahul
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