On Thu, 2014-01-23 at 23:37 +0100, drago01 wrote:
> No, I don't disagree with you there. But the repos don't
exist in a
> vacuum. Right now they are our way of shipping software in Fedora: our
> *only* way. If you want to install the Fedora-y version of a particular
> piece of software, you use the repositories. End of story.
I can do "gem install foo" or "pip install foo" on current (and
past)
fedora releases.
So no the story does not quite end here ;)
Those are not Fedora-provided software. At the point you install and
invoke gem or pip, you are making an explicit decision to use non-Fedora
software. Which is, of course, perfectly fine: but it's not an analogous
situation to there being alternative distribution methods *within the
Fedora distribution*.
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