Re: streamlining fedora-release

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On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 09:12:33AM -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 9:04 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
> <zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 02:45:26PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> >> Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> >> > The fedora-release package contains stuff that is tied to each Fedora
> >> > version and changes slowly, and it also contains the preset files for
> >> > systemd units, which change fairly often (a few requests per month).
> >>
> >> Why not have a separate fedora-presets then? Just like fedora-repos was
> >> split out from fedora-release several releases ago.
> >
> > Well, pfff, no particular reason, at least from my side. Just opening
> > a new package and going through the (trivial) review, etc., is a bit
> > of up-front effort, and then releasing updates for two packages is
> > always a bit more effort then for one. So instead, I'd want a good reason
> > to make another package and how that is going to solve something. So far I
> > haven't seen anything except some hypothetical issues.
> 
> This would allow us to deduplicate the presets shipped in
> generic-release and fedora-release, wouldn't it?

That is a very good point. It would probably make sense to do such
deduplication. But I think it should be a separate step after
fedora-release is reorganized. Doing everything at once is more likely
to lead to a mess. But yeah, it's definitely something I'll want to
do later on.

Zbyszek

> And as long has it has a "system-presets" Provides, downstream folks
> can swap them easily enough.
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