On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 08:05:30PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 17.02.2015 um 17:54 schrieb Mathieu Bridon: > >Le mardi 17 février 2015 à 17:39 +0100, Ralf Corsepius a écrit : > >>On 02/17/2015 05:18 PM, Petr Pisar wrote: > >> > >>>Why not to create a new repository with reduced policy as > >>>Stephen proposed with the one-way dependency rule (between current > >>>Fedora and the new easy-for-beginners repository)? > >> > >>Because this would establish a 2-class society, with double > >>standards standards and so on. > >> > >>Also RH and other distros history repeatedly has told the lesson > >>such will not fly and are doomed to fail. > > > >It seems to have been working just fine in RPMFusion, where the free > >and nonfree repositories have different standards for inclusion, and > >where packages in nonfree can depend on packages in free, but not the > >other way > > maybe you are newer to Fedora than me > > what you describe is what was changed around Fedora 7 > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora_%28operating_system%29#History > > * Fedora Core: Only Redhat > * Fedora Extras: Community > > not that i say that was bad *but* it was changed intentional > after the distribution is now claaed jsut "Fedora" > > you can turn and name it how you like but at the end of the day it would > mean going back to the state of Fedora Core 6
This isn't correct. The division of Core/Extras was based on who was allowed to touch packages which isn't part of this proposal. That wasn't a sustainable way to build community. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
