Re: Proposal: fedora-release-rawhide subpackage

2010-01-08 Thread Thomas Janssen
2010/1/7 Zing z...@fastmail.fm: On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:02:24 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:24:05 +0100 Till Maas opensou...@till.name wrote: You propose that the repo should be enabled by default if the package is installed. I don't like this. This make it a lot easier to

Re: Proposal: fedora-release-rawhide subpackage

2010-01-08 Thread Till Maas
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 02:02:24PM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:24:05 +0100 Till Maas opensou...@till.name wrote: You propose that the repo should be enabled by default if the package is installed. I don't like this. This make it a lot easier to break a system with

Re: Proposal: fedora-release-rawhide subpackage

2010-01-08 Thread Jussi Lehtola
On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 14:43 +0100, Till Maas wrote: On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 02:02:24PM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:24:05 +0100 Till Maas opensou...@till.name wrote: You propose that the repo should be enabled by default if the package is installed. I don't like

Re: Proposal: fedora-release-rawhide subpackage

2010-01-08 Thread Zing
On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 12:17:02 +0100, Thomas Janssen wrote: 2010/1/7 Zing z...@fastmail.fm: On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:02:24 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:24:05 +0100 Till Maas opensou...@till.name wrote: You propose that the repo should be enabled by default if the package

Re: Proposal: fedora-release-rawhide subpackage

2010-01-08 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Thu, 7 Jan 2010 22:36:59 + (UTC) Zing z...@fastmail.fm wrote: What makes you think these same users won't then also edit and enable rawhide at this point? It's not much of a stretch to think these seemingly innocent users might see this rawhide package, install, and then also enable

Re: Proposal: fedora-release-rawhide subpackage

2010-01-08 Thread dr johnson
Please do so. Entirely too many general users click-enable rawhide and never even see the comments in the .repo file at all. They are never presented a warning or anything of the sort. Split it into an optional package, and anyone that understands what it is will easily be able to install.

Re: Proposal: fedora-release-rawhide subpackage

2010-01-07 Thread Mat Booth
2010/1/7 Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com: Greetings. I'd like to propose splitting out the /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-rawhide.repo file into a fedora-release-rawhide subpackage which is NOT installed by default or shipped on the live media. I wrote up this using the Feature template, but I don't

Re: Proposal: fedora-release-rawhide subpackage

2010-01-07 Thread Till Maas
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 08:47:09PM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: I'd like to propose splitting out the /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-rawhide.repo file into a fedora-release-rawhide subpackage which is NOT installed by default or shipped on the live media. I wrote up this using the Feature template,

Re: Proposal: fedora-release-rawhide subpackage

2010-01-07 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Thu, 7 Jan 2010 12:28:59 + Mat Booth fed...@matbooth.co.uk wrote: You must do a lot more Fedora user support than I do; is it really a frequent occurrence that users unwittingly enable Rawhide and screw up their systems? Not a criticism, I'm just surprised it happens at all. Yeah, I

Re: Proposal: fedora-release-rawhide subpackage

2010-01-07 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:24:05 +0100 Till Maas opensou...@till.name wrote: You propose that the repo should be enabled by default if the package is installed. I don't like this. This make it a lot easier to break a system with Rawhide, if one installs the repo file, e.g. only to be able to

Re: Proposal: fedora-release-rawhide subpackage

2010-01-07 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 20:47 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: I wrote up this using the Feature template, but I don't guess it's really that much of a feature: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/RawhideRepoSubpackage (except in that it needs coordination across the distro and docs updates,

Re: Proposal: fedora-release-rawhide subpackage

2010-01-07 Thread Zing
On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:02:24 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:24:05 +0100 Till Maas opensou...@till.name wrote: You propose that the repo should be enabled by default if the package is installed. I don't like this. This make it a lot easier to break a system with Rawhide,

Proposal: fedora-release-rawhide subpackage

2010-01-06 Thread Kevin Fenzi
Greetings. I'd like to propose splitting out the /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-rawhide.repo file into a fedora-release-rawhide subpackage which is NOT installed by default or shipped on the live media. I wrote up this using the Feature template, but I don't guess it's really that much of a feature: