On Thu, 2014-01-23 at 13:48 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: > > To be honest my concerns are more with my user hat on than my contributor > > hat - that we will lose the gold standard unified packaging standards and > > single source and mechanism for installing packages. > > I haven't seen anything from any WG that would suggest a deviation > from RPM packaging guidelines or using separate repositories. It is a > valid concern and one we need to keep an eye on.
Um. As I read it, three out of four WGs - desktop, server, and cloud - have at least discussed the possibility of implementing what are, in essence, secondary package management layers. The details differ - 'app bundles' for desktop, 'containers' or whatever for server and cloud - but the effect is the same. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
