On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 01:02:05PM -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > >>>>> "RWMJ" == Richard W M Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > RWMJ> So I feel unfortunately this is a bad case. > > Except that it's actually a spectacularly good case, because it > perfectly illustrates the problem. Someone thinks this is a good > package and wants it in Fedora. (Either that or they're actively > trolling us to see what crap they can push through the review process.) > It doesn't violate any guidelines. You happen to not like the content. > Does that means the package stays out? I don't personally want to be > the quality czar, but I also don't want to see people pushing their > vacation photos into Fedora. No, I still think it's a bad case. Consider the cosmos screensaver that we carry: $ rpm -qf /usr/share/backgrounds/cosmos gnome-screensaver-2.28.0-1.fc12.x86_64 Those are some really beautiful NASA photographs, and I don't think anyone would object to the 3.9 MB consumed by those lovely pictures, particularly if you are in any way interested by space technology or science. I think if these were really beautiful pictures of London, no one would object to 2.6 MB. But because it's a bunch of rather crap pictures, it makes a bad case for what I think could potentially be a wonderful thing. > Isn't there already a screensaver that will work from a directory of > pictures? Isn't that good enough to cover all of these cases without us > actually having to carry a bunch of pictures? A directory of pictures isn't a hand-chosen set of great photographs that get installed from a single yum command. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
