Proposal to reduce anti-bundling requirements

[Orion Poplawski]

On 09/11/2015 08:51 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>
> Am 11.09.2015 um 23:09 schrieb Orion Poplawski:
>> What does Fedora users gain with "dnf
>> install rails" or "dnf install ipython" versus "gem install rails" and
>> "pip
>> install ipython"?
>
> a clean and maintainable installation over years instead a mess breaking
> sooner or later

I'm sorry, but this seems like a bit of a knee jerk reaction.  Are pip 
and gem that bad?  Certainly maybe just some bugs to fix?

I am aware of the critical bug with pip currently on Fedora in that it 
installs in the system python directories directly overwriting rpm 
packages.  But hopefully we can get that fixed.  Although the fact that 
this bug has been open for 5 years does not give me much hope:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=662034

Although at least it looks like everyone (at least on the Fedora side) 
is in favor, just no one to drive the work.


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