----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Kofler" <kevin.kofler(a)chello.at>
To: devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2016 4:14:30 PM
Subject: Re: including EOL and vulnerable software in Fedora
Your explanation does not solve the inherent contradiction between:
> churchyard (in the FESCo tracker):
> | These packages are not intended to be used as dependencies for other
> | packages (such as we have some "compat" packages when another package
> | needs an older version of a library), hence we want to stop people from
> | requiring them
and:
> Nick Coghlan (in this thread):
>> The addition of these packages to Fedora means that as soon as you do
>> "dnf install tox", those runtimes are all brought in automatically via
>> Recommends
tox is THE main reason for multiple interpreters in Fedora.
So no the comments are not contradictory but it seems there is a lack of (technical)
understanding of the actual situation here, but I may be wrong here, so please correct me
if you think so.
tox is not just any package, so maybe it is not stressed out I guess from the original
descriptions.
This is the work in progress (posted also to one of the tickets) for the fedora developers
portal where use cases are explained[0].
[0]
https://github.com/hroncok/content/blob/c893f742cad6458ba010748b3e1683dba...
Regards,
Charalampos Stratakis
Associate Software Engineer
Python Maintenance Team, Red Hat