On Mi, 27.10.21 14:00, Fedora Development ML (devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org) wrote:
Sorry, but I do not see what is "baseless" about the
licensing issue (see
also the further details I added above). And the idea is not to "force
people to stop using" stuff, but to not spend time making it easier to do
inherently bad things such as redistributing binaries ripped from a package
or deleting the RPM database, at the expense of added bloat for everyone.
I vehemently disagree with you that deleting RPM databases was a bad
thing. You too run a system with no RPM database – all the time, and
that thing still calls itself Fedora: a dracut initrd is exactly
that: built from RPMs but without any RPM db.
Thing is, there are different ways to update stuff. rpm/dnf is one
thing, dracut image rebuilds is another, containers are typically
updated very differently too. rpm is a useful tool (and by embedding
rpm meta info into the ELF objects it becomes even stronger), but your
assumption that rpm/dnf based updates is the only right way to upgrade
stuff is simply neither reality nor even desirable.
Lennart
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Lennart Poettering, Berlin