Proposal to reduce anti-bundling requirements

[Vít Ondruch]

Dne 11.9.2015 v 23:09 Orion Poplawski napsal(a):
> What does Fedora users gain with "dnf install rails" or "dnf install
> ipython" versus "gem install rails" and "pip install ipython"?

Easier installation of packages with binary extensions? RubyGems can't
specify dependencies on system libraries, so for example "gem install
nokogiri" may fail in case you don't have libxml2-devel installed.

Unfortunately, most of the upstreams solve the user complains that they
cannot install their favorite library due to missing dependencies (and
be it just -devel package) by bundling, they'll bundle libxml2 (for
example) into the package and the problem is solved. It is easier for
them then to educate their users :/




Vít