On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 17:20 -0500, Demond James wrote:
It would be nice if Extras could be a network of Fedora/Red Hat
certified repos hosted by individual hardware providers and software
developers. FE would have one main list that tells the package update
tool where to find the files. That would save Red Hat from trying to
host every software for FCx on their server.
That would be sortof nightmarish, the legalities alone boggle my feeble
mind.
If that buildsystem that has been talked about actually
materializes,
it can be used for this effort. Instead of submitting the actual
SRPM, the software/hardware vendor would host the binary rpms and FE
would have the information to grab these rpms form that location.
Most likely the current repo/metadata setup will have to be extended
to handle this. Not that I want to take away from the work of repo
maintainers. Perhaps 3rd party repos could be one of the sources in
the certified list (for some individual packages not their entire
repo). Also, proprietary software companies like skype and adobe, who
don't want to release their source code but want to build their
software for Fedora/Linux can utilizes this.
Extras can only contain FOSS.
There would have to be a certification process ofcourse along with
some other legalities.
Just an idea!
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