On 23. 5. 2013 at 10:53:10, Stijn Hoop wrote: > Hi, > > I would like better integration with domain-specific package managers. > By which I mean npm (for node.js), gem (for ruby), pip (for python), > cpan (for perl), pecl/pear (for PHP), CRAN (for R), CTAN (for TeX), and > many more I'm sure.
The problem is that some of these languages have fundamentally different philosophy than Fedora and unfortunatelly it's not a mix-and-match situation. That being said, there already are different tools to create spec files from those upstream representations (gem2spec, cpan2spec, ...) > By integrating RPM with these package managers, I feel it would be > possible to provide a consistent view of the system, as well as a > consistent management interface for sysadmins as opposed to application > developers. The latter I might expect to continue to use the domain > specific package managers, simply because they add value to domain > experts -- but for the common usecase "install this app on the server" > it would be nice to use RPM only. > > Another advantage that I see is that it saves Fedora packager manpower > -- if the "translation" is good enough, it should be possible to work > with upstream packages and simply automate the fedora rpm process as > much as possible. Current examples are R2spec and the TeXLive package > scripts. You can't really do this because of all the Fedora packaging policies. It might be feasible in some private repositories though. Thanks Jan -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
