Proposal to reduce anti-bundling requirements

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Fri Sep 18 23:12:16 UTC 2015



Am 18.09.2015 um 16:11 schrieb Scott Schmit:
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 09:09:47PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:
>> Am 14.09.2015 um 21:04 schrieb Adam Williamson:
>>> But just two posts ago you were drawing a distinction between an 'OS'
>>> and a 'distribution' and saying that Fedora ought to be a distribution
>>> not an OS.
>>>
>>> So basically you're saying...Fedora should be a distribution but it
>>> shouldn't include 'userdata', and you're somehow defining Wordpress as
>>> 'userdata', on the basis that it's often deployed for multiple users.
>>
>> surely - you can't deploy an application (no matter what language) supposed
>> to run hundrets of times with different configs, customazations and themes
>> with a central package managment
>>
>> *anything* which is not supposed to be used that way is a completly
>> different story
>
> But we do! All these:
> - GNOME
> - KDE
> - Firefox
> - Chrome/Chromium
> - pidgin
> - vim
> - emacs
>
> support different:
> - configurations
> - customizations
> - themes
>
> with central package management

you really compare them with wordpress or any other web-application 
which are supposed to have their configgs editable by the webspace owner?

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