On Sex, 2015-09-11 at 22:41 +0000, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: > > On 09/11/2015 09:09 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: > > What does Fedora users gain with "dnf > > install rails" or "dnf install ipython" versus "gem install rails" and "pip > > install ipython"? > > This indeed is very good question. I don't think so , if foo package have a security hole , dnf update will have an update when pip or gem install don't . Other big reason is if you need foo package to build foo2 package , system doesn't know the existence of foo package with pip or gem , neither can force the installation of it when is in a another system. > I'm not sure how things are elsewhere in the world but in the case of > gem's on a rock in the middle of the north atlantic ocean , everybody is > using bundler with nobody wanting to go back to non existing or not > current gem's in distributions and or having to manually chase down > components and resolve their dependency's. > > They prefer spending that time actually hacking or drinking beer or both. > > JBG -- Sérgio M. B. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
