On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 15:46 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote: > In fact it is a 'problem' that should not exist at all. 3rd party > repositories should not need to exist for the distribution of > proprietary or patented (eg. non-free) software if only all software was > free. Fedora (or: Free Software) is exactly the solution to that > problem. Side-note: Of course 3rd party repositories can have a > different opinion on how stuff should be packaged or whether to allow > the most bleeding edge stuff, etc... They'd not become completely > obsolete in a free-software world. This is actually the real center of the discussion, if we realize it or not. There are practical reasons why to have >1 repo: * Want to package different versions * Stability v. latest/greatest * Personal, technical, social, political, legal reasons to package differently * Personal, technical, social, political, legal reasons to what can be included in the same repo * Don't control everyone And to me, the last is the most important. There is a reason we have a mix of personality types in a tribe. For the purposes of this, we'll call all of humanity one big tribe. Personality types evolved to support the tribe in different ways. It is necessary to have a large percentage of people be happy to remain settled -- otherwise, no one would stop long enough to build a house/town, farm the land, and have more babies. Throughout those people, many minds break the mold and look ahead -- from them come progress, inventions, first thoughts and beautiful poems, all the things that make the drudgery worth living. A small but notable percentage *must* hack new paths into the wilderness -- we need the stories and benefits gained from breaking new ground never even thought of before. A simple metaphor is, "Trail blazers hack the paths, pioneers move there first, settlers make it worth coming back to." When you have created a package repo that can support all those personality types, then you have a model for Utopia. - Karsten, pioneer with a machete -- Karsten Wade, 108 Editor ^ Fedora Documentation Project Sr. Developer Relations Mgr. | fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject quaid.108.redhat.com | gpg key: AD0E0C41 ////////////////////////////////// \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
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