On Fri, 2014-01-24 at 15:14 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: > > No, not entirely, because there's a significant difference in this > > approach. You'd install the platform from Fedora's repos - which would > > have the implication that we are responsible for the platform working on > > Fedora, which seems like a reasonable commitment on our part - and you'd > > then install the software from the platform. > > I see. So you install "AppStore" from some website, and then open > that up and it has whatever. OK, that's a bit different than what I > thought you were describing. Thanks, that helps me understand where > you're coming from better. More or less - actually there can be an 'appstore' Fedora package as long as the appstore itself is F/OSS and so forth (complies with the Fedora packaging guidelines). I guess in my head I've always conceived this as a separate platform, because that seems like the design most likely to get cross-platform buy-in. Trying to implement it as some sort of consensus metadata format for repositories for each distro's package manager seems like a very difficult approach, to me - what I think third parties and users *both* really want is the ability to deploy the _same_ bundle via the _same_ channel on multiple distributions. Like I said, very simply, something like Steam, or pip. The distributors don't want to have to build packages for Fedora and Ubuntu and Arch and distro-flavour-of-the-week, and the users are probably better served if this experience is the same across distributions - it's kind of much better, in a way, for the Official Way To Install Chrome On Linux to just be 'set up 3rdPartyPlatform however your distro chooses to do that, then follow these common instructions that are the same for everyone', rather than having different instructions for every distro. So the fact that I've always conceived this as a cross-distro secondary distribution platform had the effect, in my head, of solving the 'bright line' problem, and so it didn't really become an issue. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
