Proposal to reduce anti-bundling requirements

Pierre-Yves Chibon pingou at pingoured.fr
Sat Sep 19 22:15:26 UTC 2015


On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 03:09:07PM -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> I think that wrapping up ruby and python packages into rpms seems to be of
> dubious benefit.  These projects have their own package management systems
> (that at least in ruby's case can handle multiple versions).  I'm very much
> tempted to get out of the business of packaging these things and just let
> people use the upstream language tools.  What does Fedora users gain with "dnf
> install rails" or "dnf install ipython" versus "gem install rails" and "pip
> install ipython"?

Not entirely on the topic but for pip we should for one recommend using twine
instead of pip:
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/twine

Pierre


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