Software Management call for RFEs

[Jan Zeleny]

Dne Čt 23. května 2013 16:41:04, Vít Ondruch napsal(a):
> 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.

Agreed, at least to a certain degree.

If we are talking just about a single point of access for users, perhaps we 
should rather consider putting this in one of the layers above, sort of gnome 
software center approach.

Thanks
Jan