On 26.07.2007 17:26, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 17:17 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > [...] >> But users and packagers want some modules that do not head upstream in >> the near future -- let's take the lirc kernel-modules as example, >> where the lirc-upstream afaik is not actively working on getting the >> code into linus kernel. Nobody else is doing that either. I'd prefer >> to not have stuff like that in fedora's kernel rpm, as that could soon >> and in a major maintenance nightmare, which we all want to avoid >> afaics. > > It doesn't become any _less_ of a nightmare just because you ship it > separately. I'd even say the nightmare is a bit bigger. > If we don't want it Fedora's kernel RPM, then we don't want > it in Fedora at all. Users want it and we have people wanting to package and maintain those drivers. So let's give them a playing area with a big fat warning sign. That's IMHO way better to leave them out in the cold. Cu knurd -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
