Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote:
> In case of 3 you would never update an container you would replace it
> with a new container ( or App image rather ) which contains the
> update/upgrade and delete the old container or in case of Gnome with a
> new "App image" If I understood Alexander correctly at that BOF at guadec.
>
> Personally I think we should entirely drop any notion of implementing
> software collection in Fedora on rpm bases ( could be implemented as
> standalone app image ) since we dont need it RHEL does [1] and go
> directly looking at implementing Alexander's proposal regarding app
> images.
Argh, no thanks! "App images" are even worse than SCLs. They are a security
nightmare, an immense waste of disk space and RAM, and just generally a
totally broken concept. Applications need to stop thinking they are a
distribution! Such applications-that-think-they're-distros are a horrible
mess to deal with, and generally the only sane way to handle them is to
untangle that distro-in-a-distro mess and package them as normal
applications. (See e.g. what we have done to SAGE(Math) to package it for
Fedora. Now it is a sane package using system versions of its dependencies
rather than a huge multi-hundred-MiB tarball bundling even things like
Python and Maxima!)
Kevin Kofler
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