RPM Fusion, kmods, and FHS

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, How strictly does RPM Fusion adhere to Fedora packaging guidelines? There have been exemptions made for certain packages that have no legal issues but are precluded from distribution in Fedora for technical reasons -- e.g. kernel modules. Would a similar deviation be allowed for a package that creates one directory outside the FHS hierarchy? The package in question is Nix, a purely functional package manager -- it's used as the primary package manager for NixOS, but works fine in other distributions as well (akin to how you can use MacPorts on top of OS X). Packages are installed in /nix/store by default and symlinked to the user's home directory (in ~/.nix-profile). http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/packaging/2012-June/008489.html I *could* make it comply to the FHS by moving the directory used for storage, but then pre-built binaries can no longer be used as they all expect that location, and the user would have to bootstrap and recompile everything. Would this package be fine in RPM Fusion? One Fedora packaging committee member (Toshio Kuratomi) thinks it might be appropriate, and another (Ralf Corsepius) thinks not; they both think it will not be allowed in Fedora (the packaging committee will discuss it tomorrow). Thanks, - -- Michel Alexandre Salim Fedora Project Contributor: http://fedoraproject.org/ Email: salimma(a)fedoraproject.org | GPG key ID: A36A937A Jabber: hircus(a)jabber.ccc.de | IRC: hircus(a)irc.freenode.net () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments