[Fedora-packaging] Proposal to reduce anti-bundling requirements

[Haïkel]

2015-09-11 21:09 GMT+02:00 Josh Stone <jistone at redhat.com>:
> On 09/11/2015 10:35 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
>> Actually, the opposite is true. RHEL has fewer limitations in this
>> space. Red Hat's layered projects ship a fair amount of bundled stuff.
>> This problem is entirely Fedora's. Fedora has far stricter rules than
>> RHEL in this regard.
>
> It helps that we have paid maintainers for RHEL.  Bundling is not as bad
> when there's some assurance that it won't stagnate.  But in general with
> unpaid community members, it's harder to be sure things will be actively
> maintained.

Keyword is *some*, there are packages in RHEL that are less maintained than
they are in Fedora.
I'd rather insist that RHEL has a smaller set of packages that makes
it easier that
most of them are better curated.