On Wednesday, November 6, 2019 9:06:33 PM MST Kevin Kofler wrote:
Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote:
> Symbiotic is, I think, the best way to describe the Red Hat/Fedora
> relationship.
Well, a symbiosis has to go both ways. In this case, I unfortunately get the
feeling that this feature was implemented to comply with RHEL's needs and
RHEL's needs only (enterprise server use cases where everything is
containerized, virtualized, or even physically separated, so dependency
version conflicts between unrelated applications do not matter) and forced
upon Fedora ignoring our needs and our objections. So I would rather
describe the relationship as "parasitic" rather than "symbiotic",
sorry.
Kevin Kofler
I don't believe that's as much the case as the Red Hat folks *thought* that
this would be useful for enterprise environments, and for some it may be.
However, for any industry that is required to perform updates on a routine
basis, or anything installed on an airgapped network, it makes it so much
worse.
For the most part, enterprise installs are done on dedicated hardware or
dedicated VMs on hyperconverged infrastructure, NOT containers. It's possible
that this is Red Hat's attempt to get in on that market?
It is clear, at this point, that this is something that is only designed to
benefit Red Hat, and not the Fedora community.
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John M. Harris, Jr.
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