Proposal to reduce anti-bundling requirements

[Reindl Harald]

Am 14.09.2015 um 12:41 schrieb Vít Ondruch:
> Dne 11.9.2015 v 23:09 Orion Poplawski napsal(a):
>> What does Fedora users gain with "dnf install rails" or "dnf install
>> ipython" versus "gem install rails" and "pip install ipython"?
>
> Easier installation of packages with binary extensions? RubyGems can't
> specify dependencies on system libraries, so for example "gem install
> nokogiri" may fail in case you don't have libxml2-devel installed.
>
> Unfortunately, most of the upstreams solve the user complains that they
> cannot install their favorite library due to missing dependencies (and
> be it just -devel package) by bundling, they'll bundle libxml2 (for
> example) into the package and the problem is solved. It is easier for
> them then to educate their users :/

and much more important:

if Fedora changes to more and more recommend "pip", "gem" and "cpan" 
like installs instead RPM packages it is no longer a distribution over 
the long because that would mean finally you have a core OS and handle 
anything else like Microsoft or Apple - does anybody really want to go 
that road?


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