On Tue, 2016-06-14 at 16:45 -0400, Ben Rosser wrote:
Well, if a packager wants to maintain it, why not?
As someone who's a bit skeptical about containers as the future of
software
distribution, I'd like to continue getting "traditionally packaged"
applications from Fedora where possible. I became a Fedora packager
as a
large part because I wanted to expand the pool of such software that
was
available in Fedora, by making it available to other users. It seems
like
that's not a thing we're going to care about as much going forward,
which I
guess is... fine, but I kind of have mixed feelings about the whole
thing.
I suspect I am in a minority here, though.
No, we'll still need RPM packages for lots and lots and lots of
applications. They're not going away.
In the specific case where upstream decides to ship a Flatpak and wants
to distribute that Flatpak in Fedora, then it seems advantageous to
make that available in Fedora rather than our RPMs, so you get updates
from upstream, exactly the way upstream intends, on upstream's
schedule, that run the same on every distro, without conflicting with
Fedora packages. There's a huge technical advantage to that. But most
upstreams are not going to adopt this technology; it's just an option
to make distributing your application easier. Packagers are still
needed to package stuff that's not yet available on Fedora, same as
always.
As for whether we should start discussing this... seems it's happening.
:)
Michael