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Folks, please read the article. This has nothing to do with Docker. It's referring to bundling as part of RPMs, i.e. on having application packages bundle some
by weland 11y ago
Folks, please read the article. This has nothing to do with Docker.
It's referring to bundling as part of RPMs, i.e. on having application packages bundle some or all of its dependencies along with the application. This is generally frowned upon, and with good reason, but it's being practiced with an increasing frequency.
The Fedora devs have had a lot of problems with this over the years. More recently, libraries like rawspeed have sprouted everywhere -- they are meant to be used only as bundled libraries.
So they either had to change the rule and allow bundling, or to find themselves unable to distribute applications that are otherwise useful to developers, I guess. They "opened up to bundling" in that they introduced a new provision which allows bundling in cases where there's no alternative, but the RPM has to be marked as including bundled dependencies.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for bashing Red Hat's perpetual beta crap distro, but this time they got it right. Really. It's a sensible decision, not some wavefront of Linux innovation bullshit.