On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 09:51:37AM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
I'm a bit worried about this. We really want bundled libs to
eventually go away (for any particular bundled lib). This seems like
it could encourage permanently bundled libs. That is going to make
Upstream code is full of bundled libs. We are holding back the ocean here. I
think we can have greater overall impact with an embrace-and-improve
approach (where we float on that ocean a little bit, to stretch the
metaphor) than with a current hold-it-back-until-perfect approach.
For the core distribution, and for the Fedora Commons, we should keep to the
current practice.
some packages conflicting for a very long time. (And the conflicting
packages may not be providing the same service, so that you'd need
to run two instances of Fedora to get both sets of services.)
Running two instances to get two sets of services has been the best practice
since about 1995. :)
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