On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 11:38 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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*. Sure but people do that. We can either pretend they don't or try to somehow deal with it. Currently we are exploring ways to deal with it. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
