On 07/11/2016 10:44 AM, Neal Gompa wrote: > On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 10:40 AM, Adam Miller > <maxamillion@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hello all, >> I recently started reviewing a package called sway[0][1], which is >> an i3wm[2] compatible window manager for wayland. One of it's >> utilities requires ffmpeg and I responded to the Review Request saying >> that we can not include third-party packages as Requires: so the >> packager then moved it to Suggests: and I'm unsure if that's allowed >> as there's no currently mention of Guidelines around that scenario in >> the Weak Dependencies wiki page[3]. >> >> I've opened a Council Ticket on the topic but thought I'd also start a >> discussion here. >> >> https://fedorahosted.org/council/ticket/61 >> >> > > I don't see a reason why we can't use Recommends, Suggests, > Supplements, and Enhances for it. We just shouldn't use Requires since > it would block the installation of packages due to them not actually > being in the repository. > > I added some thoughts at https://fedorahosted.org/council/ticket/61#comment:2 I think we need to carefully consider where we draw the line. Do we allow `Recommends: proprietary-software`? How about `Recommends: proprietary-kernel-module` (nVidia, AMD, VMWare, VirtualBox, etc.)? Some of these are policy questions and some are probably Legal questions too.
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