On 01/12/2007, Richi Plana <myfedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Wait, wait, wait. Are you saying that we've been talking about Fedora > and how it's a democracy, how we're trying to give users a choice > through spins even though Fedora chooses defaults ... and packagers are > free to ignore users' petitions? > > The user doesn't HAVE to know about the subpackages in order for them to > be installed when needed. That's what we're supplying the needed > information for to yum to be able to make it make good decisions. > > Packagers are responsible to the users, too, and a lack of a guideline > will guarantee that issues like this will come back again and again. > > As a packager (or one-in-progress), I would WANT guidelines. I'm doing > this for the community, and not just to scratch my own personal itch (a > point sorely lacking in many open-source projects). Personally I agree with Tom, but remember - you're free to draft a guideline and take it to the packaging committee. That's the surefire way to get things changed if you're solving a real world problem. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
