On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 01:23:01PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > So let me step into my handy Tardis and bring back a vignette from the > Real World after Fedora and other distributions bless upstream app > distribution as a preferred channel: Could you give some practical programs which are impacted by this? From what I can see, loads of programs are not packaged by a distribution. They might have a package for one distribution, but then not for another. For a manager/techy type situation, I fail to understand practical programs which would be impacted. Usually manager/techy means proprietary, in which case you usually have packages for a few distributions, but not all. Really popular applications already provide packages for a few distributions (but again not all). The intention of these apps are to give an app for a distribution before it's included within the distribution itself. If the distribution method is really that more inconvenient, then this should be addressed. But IMO the app thing is happening anyway. I really dislike these artificial roadblocks for proprietary software. The conversation IMO goes more like this: - Manager: Hey can we provide something on this Linux thing? - Techy: 20min of tech talk - Manager looking at his phone 10 secs into the conversation - Manager: "maybe we go for something less complicated" vs Techy: 1st quick n dirty (app), then improve on that (distributions) -- Regards, Olav -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
