[Fedora-packaging] what do u think about package this owncloud

zxq9 zxq9 at zxq9.com
Wed May 23 14:35:22 UTC 2012


On 05/23/2012 11:31 PM, Brendan Jones wrote:
> On 05/23/2012 04:29 PM, Marc Deop i Argemí wrote:
>> On Wednesday 23 May 2012 09:01:40 Rex Dieter wrote:
>>> On 05/23/2012 08:58 AM, Adrian Alves wrote:
>>>> http://owncloud.org/
>>>
>>> Brave souls have looked it it in the past, and concluded it would be a
>>> lot of work address all the bundled software included...
>>>
>> Excuse my ignorance but... If it's all bundled... why is it so
>> difficult to package?
>>
> Its forbidden. See
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries

Easy to package once, just today; an impossible, infectious, highly 
virulent waking maintenance nightmare later.

One of the primary reasons promising repos and distros often go under.


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