Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=478007 --- Comment #8 from Jason Tibbitts <tibbs@xxxxxxxxxxx> 2008-12-28 13:07:13 EDT --- There are several issues here: It's a metapackage. We don't really want those in the distro. Yes, there are existing examples, but that doesn't make them good examples. The proper solution for this kind of thing would be to use a comps group instead. Of course, I'm sure that if you did commit a comps group for this, a line would form to revert it. Are there plans to do this for whatever other commercial software someone might install? Why not have -requirements metapackages for every other piece of software that nobody can bother to properly package for the distribution? We didn't even do this for flash (after having a similar discussion, mind you). Why would we do it for vmware? Honestly, it is the responsibility of the software vendor to do integration like this. I'm sure there are many in the community who would be willing to assist them in setting up a proper repository for Fedora users, with real packages that have proper dependencies. This half-way solution just doesn't do the job on many levels, and entangles the distribution with semi-official support for some random vendor's software. No, thanks. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-review mailing list Fedora-package-review@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-review