Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Mon Nov 4 20:03:16 UTC 2013


On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 9:02 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
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> Am 04.11.2013 20:56, schrieb drago01:
>> On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 8:49 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
>>> that's all true but you can be pretty sure if a "app-store" with
>>> bundeled applications exists *nobody* would package and maintain
>>> them as RPM -> everybody would point with his finger to the app
>>
>> No because RPM packages apps *do* have benifits .. otherwise we
>> wouldn't have this discussion.
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>>> if it goes in that direction, and it starts faster than anybody likes
>>> you do a dramatical harm to the userbase which likes the consistent
>>> package managment and *really used* conecpt of shared libraries
>>
>> Again those are NOT MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE. You can have sandboxed *and*
>> rpm packaged apps at the same time.
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> the most imporant word in your answer is *CAN*
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> but you will not, nobody will package whatever application
> as RPM if he is fine with the app-store, so you *could*
> have both but i doubt at the end of the day it will happen

And I disagree ... but there is a way to find out ... lets try and see ;)


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