On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 11:04:57AM -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote: > > Any chance of getting all non-Free firmware to Require: some empty > > package (say freedom-loss or proprietary-crap :-) such that: > > - one could yum erase this package and end up without any non-Free > > Software installed, and > > - one could easily veirfy that custom distros with a subset of the > > complete Fedora package set don't include any such proprietary > > packages? > The entire goal of standardizing on a specific license tag be used is > that it's easy to have a simple script for query/removing/installing or > whatnot and _not_ have to do magic packages like this. Maintaining such > a package is always and without fail an absolute nitemare to do. Except, this magical package is backwards from the typical "metapackage" kludge -- other things require *it*, rather than the other way around. So it requires very very little maintenance. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
