#61: Fedora Packaging Guidelines: Weak Dependencies on packages from third-party repos -------------------------+--------------------- Reporter: maxamillion | Owner: Status: new | Priority: normal Component: General | Resolution: Keywords: meeting | -------------------------+---------------------
Comment (by kevin):
I think if we did vet 3rd party repos and use the name of packages from one, but not another it would be a defacto 'blessing' of that repo by Fedora, which I think would be wrong.
We can't really know what repo the packager had in mind, and they cannot point to it, so I think we should just forbid using deps outside the Fedora collection to avoid blessing any one repo or confusing our users as to which one(s) they should use.