On Mon, 2021-03-08 at 19:07 +0100, Miro Hrončok wrote: > On 08. 03. 21 18:33, Mattia Verga via devel wrote: > > I'm just wondering: what's the benefit of packaging Python noarch > > projects in Fedora? > > You can use them as requirements for packaged applications. > > > I can see the reason about packaging architecture specific packages, > > since they will benefit of optimizations and security flags that > > Fedora > > uses, but noarch packages are simply the source code that gets > > compiled > > at runtime by the Python interpreter, aren't they? > > > > In what way is different from installing them by pip? Does packaging > > them worth spending resources (disk space, Koji cycles) and packagers > > time? > > See above. If they are required by something, it is necessary. > Packaging leaf libraries as RPMs however indeed brings very little > benefit. by packaging you can avoid some of the mess that is seen https://github.com/pavoni/pywemo/issues/253 pip does not handle some use cases, rpm/dnf would throw an error and not let you shoot yourself in the foot Denis _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
