On Sun, 2014-01-12 at 18:55 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Adam Williamson wrote: > > I'm coming to the conclusion that at some point distros have to give up > > swimming against the tide and just say, look, if this is the way this > > ecosystem wants to go, then it's your problem. Fedora's job for such > > ecosystems would simply be to make sure their distribution mechanism > > works on top of Fedora - if it's one we care about - and then butt out. > > I'm not sure we're achieving anything practical for anyone by bending > > PHP / Java / nodejs / Ruby packages 120 degrees out of shape to conform > > to Fedora's packaging guidelines (often at the cost that we have to turn > > stuff off, or break stuff, or be months or years behind upstream, or be > > massively incomplete), and I say this as someone who's spent the last > > couple of weeks whacking on a PHPland stack (Owncloud) with a wrench to > > achieve precisely that. > > At that point, we can just close shop, we are no longer fulfilling our role > as a distribution. I also agree completely with Nicolas Mailhot's reply: > That is NOT what our users want! > > Making the software conform to packaging best practices is exactly what we > packagers are for. It is the only way to deploy software in a reliable, > well-integrated, secure and space-efficient way. Having multiple competing > deployment systems on the same machine invariably leads to integration > issues (where the ones stacked on top can get surprised when a lower-level > system changes or removes something like a system library, say because the > user accidentally removed it, not knowing that something outside of the > system package management requires it). And the security and disk space > implications of bundling have been discussed many times already. > > So, like Matthew Miller, I think we cannot possibly punt on this issue, but > I totally DISAGREE with his proposed solution of endorsing those bundling > systems officially. Instead, we need to continue packaging things properly. Have you looked at what people are installing on Fedora lately? Have you looked at how much PHP stuff there is out there vs. what we have packaged 'properly'? Java? Ruby? Do you know anyone who deploys Wordpress plugins via distribution packages? -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
