On Feb 15, 2010, at 2:28 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 04:01:25PM -0600, Garrett Holmstrom wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Scott Frankel >> <frankel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Is the upshot of this conversation that RPMs should not be used to >>> deliver closed-source applications written in Python? >> >> Certainly not as part of Fedora. You're free to do whatever you like >> with RPMs you ship yourself. >> > +1 > > The Fedora Packaging Guidelines contain some portions that are general > packaging best practices and also some things that are specific to > delivering an open source Linux Distribution. We haven't made any > attempt > to separate these two requirements since the Guidelines are mostly > written > for us and possibly to share with other Linux Distributions. > > If you're shipping proprietary applications using RPMs, you can > certainly > look at the Fedora Guidelines for examples of things that Linux > admins in > general and Fedora admins in particular are looking for (compliance > with the > FHS, no bundling of libraries, etc) but you can decide that you need > or want > to ignore a particular Guideline because your requirements are > different. > It's good to know both why you want to disregard the Guideline, > though, and > why system admins want it to be followed so that you can justify your > decision to your customers :-) Absolutely. I may be new to building RPMs, but I'm no stranger to bending guidelines ;) Thanks again! > > -Toshio > -- > packaging mailing list > packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
