On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 8:04 AM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Unlike on Gentoo, the user doesn't have to rebuild the packages, only one > packager has to do it and all the users just get the packages from the > packager, be it from the Fedora repository or a third-party repository. The 'p' > word comes into play because proprietary licenses tend to disallow or at least > limit (e.g. no way to rebuild from source because you don't have it) > repackaging, which is the real cause of your problem. And there's always the nosrc games you can play like jpackage does/did to work around the distribution legalities for proprietary junk. Even in a perfect world where all the rpm based distributions came to an agreement on how to package everything self-consistently, we still wouldn't have a mechanism to force proprietary vendors to use best practices... not when there are tools like checkinstall out and about to short-circuit the standard rpm packaging process for proprietary distributors to abuse. -jef -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
