Quote: rdalverny wrote on Fri, 25 March 2011 11:56
> A choice is arbitrary, always. It always says no > to something. Implying that this would "restrict freedoms of users" > would be laughable at best, offensive at worst, especially since this > is an open source project. You seem to be confusing different concepts here, just because a project is based on open source software that doesn't automatically guarantee that the community based on it is a community that values freedom. My concerns here are exactly because I'm getting the feeling that freedom is being unnecessarily restricted in Mageia. And no a choice is definitely not always arbitrary. Choices can be forced by unsurmountable limitations or technical incompatibilities or they can be arbitrary (i.e. not objectively necessary). > > In the early days a 'contrib' repo was suggested for not > > officially > > supported packages (I was for that idea too), this would be a good > > situation where a 'contrib' repo would solve this matter for > > everyone. > > Please open a bug for that if you think it's worth discussing it > again. Is that now the procedure for this? I would also appreciate it, if you could clarify the procedures with regards to the council I asked about in my last reply to you. -- Mageia ML Forum Gateway: http://mageia.linuxtech.net/forum/
