On Sat, 2015-09-12 at 04:46 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 11.09.2015 um 23:54 schrieb Orion Poplawski: > > I would argue that we need to be packaging much less than we do. > > Many > > languages have developed packaging infrastructures around > > themselves and > > perhaps it's time to let those become the primary means of > > distributing such > > software > > no, thanks, one time the mess with CPAN installed packages mixed > with > the OS and clean that up was enough while it's way more maintainable > over dist-upgrades to package the missing perl modules to get net- > dri > running for years now > > having parallel worlds of software management ends in a mess on > systems > not re-installed every now and then - i maintain 30 productin > machines > installed 2008 and upgraded with yum - that's possible because one > central package management perl and python are examples of languages whose packaging mechanisms have been designed with system-wide installation / distribution packaging broadly kept in mind. For other languages/ecosystems this is not the case; they are expressly designed around bundling. -- 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
