On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 5:27 AM, Robert Marcano <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> You make the decision by installing a js-foo package, just like you >> make the decision to provide a web application by installing a package >> for it. "You make a decision by installing a package" is a really problematic model, e.g. because packages can be dragged in by dependencies. > Do you know there are GNOME JavaScript applications? And that JavaScript is > being encouraged as a language for desktop applications? So all those > libraries that can be used on desktop and web clients will be shared by > default if I install a desktop application that need that library and a web > application that never uses that library? This is madness, why not share > /usr/bin via NFS too by default There is actually a precedent for that - our default httpd configuration aliases /icons, see e.g. https://fedoraproject.org/icons/apache_pb2.png . OK, these are "only" public domain; then let's see httpd-manual, which publishes Apache-licensed documentation in /manual. (That's not necessarily a good argument that it's OK to do this way, I just wanted to point out that this is not that new.) Mirek -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
