https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2142178



--- Comment #8 from Neal Gompa <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Omair Majid from comment #6)
> > It seems weird that we'd drop it though, given that we have the dotnet-host 
> > package generated too.
> 
> So `dotnet-host` provides an entry point (`/usr/bin/dotnet`) to running all
> .NET versions. Think of it like python's `venv` and `python3` all rolled
> into one command. dotnet-host also provides man pages and a bunch of other
> things. If we don't ship it we wont have .NET working at all. And we only
> really need to ship one version of that: the version from .NET 7 will handle
> .NET 6 just fine.
> 
> > That said, it does make sense to me that RHEL wouldn't have this anymore, 
> > given that you'll keep adding new versions across the same major RHEL 
> > version.
> 
> I plan to do the same for Fedora. Fedora 36 has .NET Core 3.1 (dotnet3.1),
> .NET 6.0 (dotnet6.0) and I will be adding this .NET 7 (dotnet7.0) to Fedora
> 36 and later.
> 
> There just isn't a good reason for `dotnet` to exist as a separate package
> when everyone (including upstream) expects users to install versions
> explicitly.
> 
> > But if you really want to drop it, the conditional is not very clear on 
> > that. 
> 
> I can fix that shortly with better comments, if you want.
> 
> > And all the other dotnet packages will need cleanup for that too...
> 
> Super long term, I do want to stop providing a plain unversioned `dotnet`
> package everywhere, including Fedora.
> 
> Would you be okay if I left dotnet3.1 and dotnet6.0 continue providing a
> `dotnet` package and just remove it from dotnet7.0? Or would you prefer we
> handle Fedora 38 and later differently than Fedora 37 and earlier?

I'd prefer F38+ differently from older versions. You'll probably want to fix up
the developer.fedoraproject.org content for this new reality, though.


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