On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 16:25 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > If Red Hat Linux had a history of providing additional services to users > and thus you expected it to provide a repository for fedora version X, > would you subvert that ability by forking some of its existing packages > into incompatible versions duplicated into your own repository? Fedora cannot point to, make reference of, or otherwise "endorse" software repos external to Fedora's control. This introduces a legal risk. We also can't make use of external packages to build our dependent packages as this also introduces a security risk to our buildsystem. Therefor if it's software that is suitable to be in Fedora, the only way we can officially provide it for Fedora users is by having it in Fedora. This is why we have an open package submission system and an open build system and an open distribution. All other attempts at this game have failed in various ways. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
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