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

Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johannbg at gmail.com
Fri Sep 11 19:26:03 UTC 2015



On 09/11/2015 07:16 PM, Haïkel wrote:
> 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.

Right as well as most issues already have been found and fixed in Fedora 
long before those components enter RHEL.

JBG
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