Re: Modularity and packagers [was Re: PkgDB and the ArbitraryBranching Change]

2017-08-20 Thread Lars Seipel
On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 08:50:58AM +0200, Adam Samalik wrote: > RPMs... Well, if someone has an application on their server that doesn't > run in a container, there are still RPMs on a traditional system. But would > you install multiple versions stuff on that single system? Or would other >

Re: Modularity and packagers [was Re: PkgDB and the ArbitraryBranching Change]

2017-06-09 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Adam Samalik*/ wrote on Fri, 9 Jun 2017 08:50:58 +0200: On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 10:49 PM, Randy Barlow > wrote: On Thu, 2017-06-08 at 22:17 +0200, Adam Samalik wrote: > You add the package and other people start

Re: Modularity and packagers [was Re: PkgDB and the ArbitraryBranching Change]

2017-06-09 Thread Adam Samalik
On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 10:49 PM, Randy Barlow wrote: > On Thu, 2017-06-08 at 22:17 +0200, Adam Samalik wrote: > > You add the package and other people start to use it. That's great > > until you need to change the version, but can't, because other people > > started

Re: Modularity and packagers [was Re: PkgDB and the ArbitraryBranching Change]

2017-06-08 Thread Randy Barlow
On Thu, 2017-06-08 at 22:17 +0200, Adam Samalik wrote: > You add the package and other people start to use it. That's great > until you need to change the version, but can't, because other people > started to use it as a dependency and it would break their stuff. I recently heard that it will be

Re: Modularity and packagers [was Re: PkgDB and the ArbitraryBranching Change]

2017-06-08 Thread Adam Samalik
On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 8:13 PM, Tom Hughes wrote: > On 08/06/17 18:54, Matthew Miller wrote: > >> On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 06:48:27PM +0100, Tom Hughes wrote: >> >>> I mean it would probably still be quite daunting for somebody that >>> did want to get into more detail I guess

Re: Modularity and packagers [was Re: PkgDB and the ArbitraryBranching Change]

2017-06-08 Thread Tom Hughes
On 08/06/17 18:54, Matthew Miller wrote: On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 06:48:27PM +0100, Tom Hughes wrote: I mean it would probably still be quite daunting for somebody that did want to get into more detail I guess but I think I wound up there following through from some of the other stuff about

Modularity and packagers [was Re: PkgDB and the ArbitraryBranching Change]

2017-06-08 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 06:48:27PM +0100, Tom Hughes wrote: > I mean it would probably still be quite daunting for somebody that > did want to get into more detail I guess but I think I wound up > there following through from some of the other stuff about arbitrary > branching and I was mostly