On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 09:40 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 01:16:30AM -0600, Ken Dreyer wrote: > > I do agree that the .rpmnew thing is annoying, and I wish there was a > > better way to handle that. > > I think in general, packaging webapps into RPM is of low value. I've tried > to use these packages in production several times over the years, and > inevitably become frustrated and which I'd just installed from upstream as > upstream expects. Not coincidentally, see the presentation I just posted in > a another thread. :) FWIW I have the exact opposite experience; I run some webapps from RPM packages and some installed directly and I far prefer the RPM packaged ones. I only wish there were packages of the ones I have to install and maintain manually. I even prefer the experience of running a webapp from a package *when I have to do a lot of the maintenance on the package* (Roundcube). -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
