Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (475 mails)

["Alexey Eremenko" <al4321@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Martin Schlander
<martin.schlander@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Søndag 17 august 2008 10:45:08 skrev Pascal Bleser:
> > Well I just meant that maybe we should think a bit about which packages
> > we want to be in contrib :)
>
> How about any working package that someone wants to build, or has already
> built in the BS? :-)
>
> Of course following current BS policies - meaning no non-free software, no
> packages known to violate US patents...
>
> And of course excluding factory duplicates.
>
> Maybe there should also be some restrictions for packages prone to security
> issues - don't know how to define that in a good way though.
>
> Generally I think we should want so many packages in contrib, that it would be
> easier to discuss which packages we _don't_ want there.

+1

I agree with Martin, but with one additional restriction: stability.

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-Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"