Re: Approved packages that never get imported?

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On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 04:47:32PM -0400, Ben Rosser wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 9:40 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The story with this package (and I think there were some others) is
> > that they are required for 'opam' which is a source-based OCaml
> > packaging tool (think: Perl and the ‘cpan’ command).  Jon Ludlam
> > turned up wanting to get opam into Fedora.
> >
> > Although opam modules "compete" in some sense with the Fedora ocaml-*
> > RPMs we create, there are slightly different use cases because opam
> > can access development versions of OCaml which we don't tend to
> > package, and it also confines itself to the user's home directory, so
> > I don't think there's anything particularly wrong about this.  However
> > Jon did then disappear before we got all the opam dependencies into
> > Fedora, so that was that.
> 
> That's actually why I stumbled across it; I just started using OCaml
> for a new project a few days ago and was disappointed that opam was
> still not in Fedora, so I decided to investigate what would be
> required to make it happen.  I assumed it would probably be safe to
> resubmit the other reviews (which I may do over the next few weeks as
> time permits), but I wasn't sure what to do about this one. Thanks for
> clarifying!

Please CC me on the review bugs and I'll try to review them.

Rich.

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