On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis <fed...@leemhuis.info>wrote:
> [cut] > > The Fedoraproject once again chose to leave non-free out of Fedora. I > appreciate that. I even think a lot of users understand why the > Fedoraproject acts like this (now and earlier, too). But: it utterly > hard to get non-free Software when running Fedora. That's what the > Fedora ecosystem IMHO needs to fix. Debian, who has a similar stance on > non-free Software, does a way better job in that area than Fedora does. > We need to catch up here and I think the Fedoraproject should drive > this, because it's important for the success of Fedora (and RHEL/CentOS) > that people can easily use it for what they want. > +1 Indeed. And to be frank it's not only about non-free software, it's just about anything which if not is "Not invented Here" at least is "Not Packaged Here". > And as the down-voted > proposal shows: There are developers within the Fedoraproject that are > willing to do the work; there are more in Korora, RPM Fusion and other > places. We just need to bring them together properly afiacs. > I'm also on this. After the lpf effort trying to cope with non-redistributable sw (skype, spotify, flash...) I'm now trying a simplistic way top make "foreign" repositories more visible and usable.: After hacking a simple tool which provides a GUI for a repository file it's possible to create repository packages complete with desktop and appdata file. I have some 5-10 such repository packages under way, my plan is to push them into rpmfusion. If there will be a way for users to aggregate appdata from different sources such as rpmfusion (don't fully really understand this process right now) users will be able to search and find also non-free items as long there is a packaged repository for them. It should work out of the box right now using old-school tools based on package metadata. Not ideal, but perhaps something. --alec
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