[Fedora-packaging] remove source files

[Scott Frankel]

On Feb 15, 2010, at 2:28 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 04:01:25PM -0600, Garrett Holmstrom wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Scott Frankel  
>> <frankel at circlesfx.com> wrote:
>>> Is the upshot of this conversation that RPMs should not be used to
>>> deliver closed-source applications written in Python?
>>
>> Certainly not as part of Fedora.  You're free to do whatever you like
>> with RPMs you ship yourself.
>>
> +1
>
> The Fedora Packaging Guidelines contain some portions that are general
> packaging best practices and also some things that are specific to
> delivering an open source Linux Distribution.  We haven't made any  
> attempt
> to separate these two requirements since the Guidelines are mostly  
> written
> for us and possibly to share with other Linux Distributions.
>
> If you're shipping proprietary applications using RPMs, you can  
> certainly
> look at the Fedora Guidelines for examples of things that Linux  
> admins in
> general and Fedora admins in particular are looking for (compliance  
> with the
> FHS, no bundling of libraries, etc) but you can decide that you need  
> or want
> to ignore a particular Guideline because your requirements are  
> different.
> It's good to know both why you want to disregard the Guideline,  
> though, and
> why system admins want it to be followed so that you can justify your
> decision to your customers :-)

Absolutely.  I may be new to building RPMs, but I'm no stranger to  
bending guidelines ;)

Thanks again!



>
> -Toshio
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