Software Management call for RFEs

[Vít Ondruch]

Dne 23.5.2013 16:29, Miloslav Trmač napsal(a):
> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Vít Ondruch <vondruch at redhat.com 
> <mailto:vondruch at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     *It is not possible to convert the packages technically nor
>     philosophically*
>
>     You might think million times that the sentence is not truth, but
>     that is as it is. I'll give you several examples:
>
>     * Gems cannot express dependencies on system libraries such
>     sqlite3, libxml2, etc.
>
> Doesn't matter for the system administrator who has already installed 
> the gem.
>
>     * Gems does not undergoing legal review, i.e. you have to trust to
>     the author of the gem, that the license is correct, which sadly
>     may not true.
>
> Doesn't matter for the system administrator who has already installed 
> the gem.
>
>     * Bundling, quite common phenomenon.
>
> Doesn't matter for the system administrator who has already installed 
> the gem.
>
>     Just this short list of issues should be enough. It might work for
>     you, when you decide to neglect all the issue mentioned above and
>     probably several else, but it does not work for distribution. Sorry.
>
> I don't think this is necessarily targeted at changing how _Fedora_ 
> distributes things; just giving system administrators a single command 
> that works on an installed system might be an useful improvement.
>     Mirek
>

Ok, so speaking for gem2rpm, it might be made more dumber to include 
automatically * and if no license is found, then put there "foo" for 
example. Actually, everybody is free to do such a template for himself, 
or even submit such patch upstream, but then the RPM kind of loosing its 
purpose.

Vít
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