On 2015-10-13, Bastien Nocera <bnocera@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Bastien Nocera wrote: >> > 2 distributions add slightly different versions of the same functionality >> > -> incompatible >> >> I said that carrying more feature patches makes it "more likely" that >> packages from other distros will work, not "100% certain" (which is >> obviously not possible when there are incompatible versions of the same >> patchset floating around). >> >> > Application compiled on Fedora using the new features -> doesn't work on >> > other distribution >> >> And that's not a problem for OUR users, only for those of the other >> distribution. So why would that be ours to worry about? > > That's a problem for OUR users because when they use Fedora, they want to be > able to make a tarball of their software for their friend on Ubuntu to test. > Here, you're making Fedora a bad choice for developers that want to target > more than just Fedora. > If you exchange Fedora and Ubuntu, you will get the same valid statement. This is not about Fedora or Ubuntu. It's about you don't like diverse world where distributions differ. I have a good news for you: There are different operating sytems where executing foreign blobs is standard practice because there is exactly one distribution of the operating system. -- Petr -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
