Paul wrote: > Hi, > >> It's come to my attention that we don't have a "Packages must be built >> from source, no precompiled binaries" rule in the current guidelines. I >> think this is an oversight as the Binary Firmware section: >> http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#BinaryFirmware > > I have a problem with that and it's called ikvm (one of the mono > packages). It cannot be built from source as FE or FC doesn't have the > bits in yet (I looked into it a while back, but it's beyond my knowledge > to do things with java stuff that needs bringing in). The package that > was accepted is prebuilt. Building from source (also) brings a certain level of trust to the built-binary, which you don't necessarily have when using prebuilt binaries (from potentially untrusted sources). In general, for this reason alone, I think it's not a good idea to accept prebuilt binaries. -- Rex -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
