Fedora.next in 2014 -- Big Picture and Themes

[drago01]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 11:46 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
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> Am 23.01.2014 23:37, schrieb drago01:
>> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 11:34 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> 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 ;)
>
> there is a difference if you *want* do so or *forced* to do so
> because there is no longer a *single* and consistent package
> source what is over years and still *THE* greath strength of
> a linux *distribution*

No one is proposing to force anyone to do anything so stop the FUD please.