Dne Čt 23. května 2013 16:41:04, Vít Ondruch napsal(a): > Dne 23.5.2013 16:29, Miloslav Trmač napsal(a): > > On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Vít Ondruch <vondruch@xxxxxxxxxx > > > > <mailto:vondruch@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > *It is not possible to convert the packages technically nor > > philosophically* > > > > You might think million times that the sentence is not truth, but > > that is as it is. I'll give you several examples: > > > > * Gems cannot express dependencies on system libraries such > > sqlite3, libxml2, etc. > > > > Doesn't matter for the system administrator who has already installed > > the gem. > > > > * Gems does not undergoing legal review, i.e. you have to trust to > > the author of the gem, that the license is correct, which sadly > > may not true. > > > > Doesn't matter for the system administrator who has already installed > > the gem. > > > > * Bundling, quite common phenomenon. > > > > Doesn't matter for the system administrator who has already installed > > the gem. > > > > Just this short list of issues should be enough. It might work for > > you, when you decide to neglect all the issue mentioned above and > > probably several else, but it does not work for distribution. Sorry. > > > > I don't think this is necessarily targeted at changing how _Fedora_ > > distributes things; just giving system administrators a single command > > that works on an installed system might be an useful improvement. > > > > Mirek > > Ok, so speaking for gem2rpm, it might be made more dumber to include > automatically * and if no license is found, then put there "foo" for > example. Actually, everybody is free to do such a template for himself, > or even submit such patch upstream, but then the RPM kind of loosing its > purpose. Agreed, at least to a certain degree. If we are talking just about a single point of access for users, perhaps we should rather consider putting this in one of the layers above, sort of gnome software center approach. Thanks Jan -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
