Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (599 mails)

[Eberhard Moenkeberg <emoenke@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Andreas Hanke wrote:
> Andreas Hanke schrieb:

> > > > - Separate repositories for source packages - bad idea IMHO.
> > >
> > > Why do you think this is a bad idea ?
> >
> > Because they would be harder to find, resulting in fake GPL violation
> > discussions on this list :-(
>
> Another point to consider: If it becomes possible to mirror the
> distribution without the source RPMs, someone will do it; and if someone
> does it, people will come back here and ask why there are just binaries
> on a mirror and not the sources.
>
> Brute-forcing mirrors to have the source RPMs by tying them together
> with the binary RPMs is a desirable effect IMHO.

Serving fools just creates a new fool.

So this should not be an "originary" aspect.

Cheers -e
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Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@xxxxxxx, em@xxxxxxx)
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