Proposal to reduce anti-bundling requirements

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Mon Sep 14 19:09:47 UTC 2015



Am 14.09.2015 um 21:04 schrieb Adam Williamson:
> On Mon, 2015-09-14 at 20:57 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:
>> Um. But weren't you just saying:
>>>
>>> "if Fedora changes to more and more recommend "pip", "gem" and
>>> "cpan"
>>> like installs instead RPM packages it is no longer a distribution
>>> over
>>> the long because that would mean finally you have a core OS and
>>> handle
>>> anything else like Microsoft or Apple - does anybody really want
>>> to go
>>> that road?"
>>
>> there is a difference between an application and a webspace
>>
>>> So...I'm finding it difficult to understand what it is you're
>>> actually
>>> *saying* here
>>
>> if you don't understand the difference between applications fro a
>> single
>> machiens and webspaces running similar applications fro 100, 200,
>> 300,
>> 1000 instances then it may be difficult
>>
>> one thing is the operating system
>> the other things are userdata and a webspace is clearly userdata
>
> But just two posts ago you were drawing a distinction between an 'OS'
> and a 'distribution' and saying that Fedora ought to be a distribution
> not an OS.
>
> So basically you're saying...Fedora should be a distribution but it
> shouldn't include 'userdata', and you're somehow defining Wordpress as
> 'userdata', on the basis that it's often deployed for multiple users.

surely - you can't deploy an application (no matter what language) 
supposed to run hundrets of times with different configs, customazations 
and themes with a central package managment

*anything* which is not supposed to be used that way is a completly 
different story

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