[Bug 2238191] Review Request: golang-github-bazelbuild-bazelisk - A user-friendly launcher for Bazel

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2238191



--- Comment #9 from Daniel Milnes <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ---
(In reply to Tom Rix from comment #8)
> (In reply to Daniel Milnes from comment #5)
> > Hey Tom, thanks for looking at this.
> > 
> > > How is this useful if bazel is not itself a fedora package ?
> > 
> > Bazelisk is effectively a package manager. It will download Bazel from the
> > official sources and install it. Whilst I'd love to package Bazel itself for
> > Fedora, that is a substantially more complex and brittle package to
> > maintain. I'd personally argue this is equivalent to us packaging `npm`, as
> > a way to download something that's not available as an RPM.
> 
> How does this help with packaging projects in fedora that use bazel ?

It doesn't, Bazelisk is an end-user tool. It's designed to allow people who
have created repos that use Bazel to easily manage multiple versions of it.
Without Bazelisk, the only real way to install Bazel is `curl -O
/usr/local/bin/bazel https...`.

This is why I think it's comparable to `npm`. We can't use it as part of an RPM
spec, but it's very helpful to end-users who are working with Bazel.

I don't think there's too much we can do to ease packaging projects which use
Bazel for RPM. Bazel is designed to be hermetically-sealed and downloads its
project dependencies to vendored directories, which is the opposite of Fedora's
"Everything should come through the package manager" approach. I'm happy to
have a discussion about that, but I think it's better suited to Matrix
(thebeanogamer:fedora.im).


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