On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 8:49 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Am 04.11.2013 20:43, schrieb Josh Boyer: >> On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> and why do different distributions exist? >>> guess what: because they have different goals and userbases >>> >>> otherwise we could join all distributions in a big one with >>> doing all but nothing good >>> >>> i started to *really* use Fedora at a time where Ubuntu got >>> really popular and i took Fedora and built a ecosystem around >>> it because Fedora is waht it is - don't taint that >> >> The addition of a new piece of functionality does not immediately >> taint or modify the core of what Fedora is. Maybe instead of just >> steadfastly asserting there should be no Change, you could work _with_ >> people as they try to include Change to address specific needs that >> aren't being met. >> >> Successful distros are evolutionary projects. There is no "done" or >> "final state" with them. That doesn't mean they rip out the core >> concepts and start over, but it does mean they adapt to new usecases >> and challenges as they come up > > that's all true but you can be pretty sure if a "app-store" with > bundeled applications exists *nobody* would package and maintain > them as RPM -> everybody would point with his finger to the app No because RPM packages apps *do* have benifits .. otherwise we wouldn't have this discussion. > if it goes in that direction, and it starts faster than anybody likes > you do a dramatical harm to the userbase which likes the consistent > package managment and *really used* conecpt of shared libraries Again those are NOT MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE. You can have sandboxed *and* rpm packaged apps at the same time. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
