Glad to hear there's a lot of interest in this! I think file triggers would definitely help with optimizing containerization, but I think it still has some issues. Two properties that would be desirable for optimizing containerization are: 1. Mergeability. If multiple packages perform the same task, it can just be run once. 2. Equivalence of incremental changes and a clean build (or anti-hysteresis; see https://blog.verbum.org/2020/08/22/immutable-%E2%86%92-reprovisionable-anti-hysteresis/). If different systems install (or uninstall) the same packages in a different order, is the final state guaranteed to be identical?
I think transactional file triggers help with 1, but I don't think they currently guarantee 2. I'm wondering if there'd be any way to allow RPMs to guarantee 2. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
