Proposal to reduce anti-bundling requirements

[Jóhann B. Guðmundsson]

On 09/10/2015 07:10 PM, Przemek Klosowski wrote:
> On 09/10/2015 09:53 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
>> The point of software is to provide a service to an end-user. Users
>> don't run software because it has good packaging policies, they run
>> software because it meets a need that they have. If they can't get
>> that software from Fedora, they *will* get it from another source (or
>> use a different OS that doesn't get in their way). I'll take a moment
>> to remind people that two of Fedora's Four Foundations are "Features"
>> and "First". We want Fedora to be the most feature-complete
>> distribution available and we want to get there before anyone else
>> does. I would say that holding to our no-bundling policy actively
>> defeats our efforts on that score.
> Those are valid points, but I think that there are alternative 
> approaches to address them.
> Can containerization it be leveraged to handle the packages which 
> require bundling? This way, we could maintain the principled stance, 
> and use containers with bundling packages as a temporary measure.

That would be more like a permanent solution since everything is 
evolving into that direction however you would still need a separate 
means of installing that bundle and those means would not be rpm afaikt.

JBG