On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 03:53:19PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > Well, obviously Someone is doing that quite a lot anyway. Fedora needs > > to continue to avoid that. Here is where "work with upstream" comes in > > -- if we put the same effort into reviewing packages in Fedora into > > reviewing the same code at the _upstream_ packaging point, we > > significantly increase the amount of good our work is doing _and_ we can > > draw in a larger community of people interested in the same ends but not > > necessarily in Fedora or RPMs. > You don't necessarily need to distribute these RPMs. You could have a > tool that takes the upstream sources, compiles it, turns it into an > RPM and installs that (all done on the end-user's machine). Of > course, integrating that with yum is challenging; maybe a yum plugin > can do it? Yes, exactly, to all of that. :) -- Matthew Miller ☁☁☁ Fedora Cloud Architect ☁☁☁ <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
