On Tue, 2013-11-05 at 13:23 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > If > distros move away from the gospel of centralized distribution
Some people working on technologies in this area may have that as a goal, but I think it's absolutely crucial to continue to support the "package" model of application distribution as well. Consider applications like Boxes or virt-manager - these are tightly tied into the virtualization libraries which are in turn tightly tied into the operating system plumbing - and that's fine and makes sense! The two other cases are: - Less tightly coupled Free Software - Proprietary software This is a fantastically complex discussion for a number of reasons just with respect to terminology - for example, Debian has a non-free repository that is "centralized", or at least more centralized than Fedora. I know you had a long mail, but your example didn't state whether "Shiny New Application" was Free Software or proprietary, or whether it was tightly coupled or not, etc. These aspects matter, and there's a lot of grey area in the continuum. But I guess a bottom line is as a member of the upstream GNOME community, I would argue very much against any application mechanism which did not allow applications to *also* be shipped in the traditional package model. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
