On 6/5/23 15:01, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Mon, 2023-06-05 at 19:51 +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote: >> On 6/5/23 19:13, Demi Marie Obenour wrote: >> >>> Are you willing to do the packaging work? Asking upstream to create >>> packages for every distribution is not reasonable. >> >> I would never want upstream to do packaging, as experience teaches, >> they would certainly do it wrong. >> Packaging and integration is a job for the distribution; it is their >> added value. Otherwise, what's the meaning of a distribution, if >> the system is composed by a minimal booting image on which you >> add upstream generated blobs? > > This is really the heart of the question, and it's an interesting one. > > The idea that the distribution's job is to package up everything you > might possibly want to use on your system is a very old one that goes > back to the days before having an internet connection was the norm, let > alone having several hundred megabits a second on tap at all times. “several hundred megabits a second on tap at all times” is completely out of the question for the majority of the world’s population. I’m not sure what the median bandwidth in the developing world is, but it is far FAR less than that, not to mention often being metered. -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers) _______________________________________________ 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, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
