2017-10-25 9:38 GMT-06:00 Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>:
2017-10-25 16:54 GMT+02:00 Jason Brooks <jbrooks(a)redhat.com>:
> Hi all --
>
> As part of a documentation project I'm working on with the Fedora
> Atomic WG, I started packaging asciibinder[1] with the intention of
> getting the package into Fedora. Along the way[2], I encountered a
> bunch of required, unpackaged dependencies, which would also have to
> be added to Fedora.
>
> [1]
http://asciibinder.org/
> [2]
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/jasonbrooks/asciibin
> der/packages/
>
> It has me wondering whether packaging these gems as rpms is
> worthwhile, especially since we'd end up running asciibinder in a
> container, anyway.
>
> What are people's thoughts on the value of packaging gems -- it's it
> worthwhile, is it somehow UnFedora to not bother to package them?
>
Also consider that:
1 - your are sure that there is no broken depencies.
2 - when a new version of ruby is available those gems will be verified to
work in next mass rebuild.
3 - all available tests as checked in every build.
4 - koshei will inform you new depencies changes.
5 - there will be stable software stack per release