Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
To be honest, anyone who says infrastructure should be a breeze to maintain... has to define breeze...
Is the FHS spec - or compliance - ever going to reach a point where it is possible to have distribution-agnostic packages? Or even source builds that completely integrate with the packaged components - so every little program doesn't need special maintenance and different copies for every distro/version before their users can run it?
I have yet to see a build infrastructure anywhere that is a 'breeze'... too many frickin' corner cases.
That probably can't be completely eliminated for things that require version-specific features to work at all, but there must be some way to reduce the number of corners for things that just need standard services. It doesn't make any sense to require human intervention to fix things to work because of differences on an OS that is supposed to be presenting a standard interface. Rather than splintering the distributions to accommodate and create even more differences, shouldn't the effort go towards making that less necessary?
-- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
