Packaging guidelines - Bundler

[Mo Morsi]

On 01/04/2012 08:04 AM, Vít Ondruch wrote:
> Dne 4.1.2012 13:57, Darryl L. Pierce napsal(a):
>> On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 09:40:52AM -0800, Michael Stahnke wrote:
>>> I really dislike bundler.  However, from the Ruby ecosystem point of view,
>>> it's there and it's not going anywhere.  It featured on every rubygem page.
>>>   It certainly conflicts with the bundled library viewpoint Fedora has, but
>>> without it, many many applications built upon Ruby won't make it into
>>> Fedora.  This is especially true since rpm by design cannot have multiple
>>> versions of the same package installed; whereas gem can.
>> Sure it can. Look at kernel as an example. It depends on how the package
>> is installed as to whether the rpm will upgrade an existing package or
>> install in parallel (and also other factors such as locations of files,
>> etc.).
>>
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> RPM allows to install several versions of package in parallel, however 
> yum cannot handle them and kernel is exceptional case. So if you 
> replace RPM with yum in the paragraph above, then it is correct.
>
>
> Vit

Yes the kernel is a very exceptional case, special handling for a 
specific list of packages is hard coded into the yum source.

I don't think we'll be able to do the same for a variable (and 
ever-growing) amount of rubygems.

   -Mo
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