stop to maitain rpm

Mike Parker aldacron at gmail.com
Mon Aug 12 07:34:03 PDT 2013


On Monday, 12 August 2013 at 13:38:11 UTC, Dicebot wrote:

>
> 1) Developers tend to forget that tools like `dub` are for 
> taking care of dependencies during development and end users 
> won't have `dub`. Even if it is a library, dynamic linking 
> implies that it will be pulled as a dependency not only by 
> developers. That may result in complications for integrating 
> package into existing package system. Sometimes.

That's true. But, correct me if I'm wrong, rpms and the like are 
bundled independently of the original source repository. So a 
project relying solely on dub doesn't stop a package maintainer 
from keeping a separate build script to bundle with the rpm.


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