On Thu, 2014-01-23 at 23:37 +0100, drago01 wrote: > > No, I don't disagree with you there. But the repos don't exist in a > > vacuum. Right now they are our way of shipping software in Fedora: our > > *only* way. If you want to install the Fedora-y version of a particular > > piece of software, you use the repositories. End of story. > > I can do "gem install foo" or "pip install foo" on current (and past) > fedora releases. > So no the story does not quite end here ;) Those are not Fedora-provided software. At the point you install and invoke gem or pip, you are making an explicit decision to use non-Fedora software. Which is, of course, perfectly fine: but it's not an analogous situation to there being alternative distribution methods *within the Fedora distribution*. -- 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
