On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 03:53:19PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Well, obviously Someone is doing that quite a lot anyway. Fedora
needs
> to continue to avoid that. Here is where "work with upstream" comes in
> -- if we put the same effort into reviewing packages in Fedora into
> reviewing the same code at the _upstream_ packaging point, we
> significantly increase the amount of good our work is doing _and_ we can
> draw in a larger community of people interested in the same ends but not
> necessarily in Fedora or RPMs.
You don't necessarily need to distribute these RPMs. You could have a
tool that takes the upstream sources, compiles it, turns it into an
RPM and installs that (all done on the end-user's machine). Of
course, integrating that with yum is challenging; maybe a yum plugin
can do it?
Yes, exactly, to all of that. :)
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