Proposal to reduce anti-bundling requirements

[Scott Schmit]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 09:09:47PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:
> Am 14.09.2015 um 21:04 schrieb Adam Williamson:
> >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

But we do! All these:
- GNOME
- KDE
- Firefox
- Chrome/Chromium
- pidgin
- vim
- emacs

support different:
- configurations
- customizations
- themes

with central package management

...per user.  (Mozilla even had multiple user profile support within a
single user.  I'm not sure if Firefox still has that or has since
dropped it.)

Sure, they had to be designed to support that, but it's hardly
impossible.

If you're saying that arbitrary code modifications can't be supported
that way, that's of course true -- but now we're back to talking about
different versions (just unofficial and from local patching).

-- 
Scott
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