Re: gnome-do & subpackages

On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 16:45 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > Hi! > > Juan Rodriguez wrote on 18.11.2009 16:32: > > My name is Juan Rodriguez, and I currently maintain a pair of packages > > for Fedora 10, 11 and 12. > > > > One of those packages I maintain is gnome-do, (and gnome-do-plugins), > > with gnome-do-docklets along the way. However, it has come to my > > attention that gnome-do's "docky" interface violates US Patent > > 7434177 [1], which in turn, crippled gnome-do by removing docky from the > > Fedora's package. > > > > I'd like to request for it to join the RPMFusion repositories instead. > > As mentioned on IRC: We iirc allow packages that got removed from > Fedora to enter RPM Fusion without additional review. If my memory > serves me correct (e.g. if nobody yells over the next 2 days) then file > a CVS reqeuest for gnome-do and gnome-do-plugins and apply for > membership in FAS. You'll find details how to do that on > http://rpmfusion.org/Contributors Just seeking clarification: does gnome-do check its plugins at runtime? If so, could we just have a gnome-do-docky package instead of having an RPM Fusion package conflict with the Fedora one? Jonathan