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List:       fedora-desktop-list
Subject:    Re: Workstation feedback on generic-release-workstation request?
From:       Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh () redhat ! com>
Date:       2014-10-20 14:50:50
Message-ID: 1413816650.4110.5.camel () redhat ! com
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On Mon, 2014-10-20 at 16:44 +0200, Kalev Lember wrote:
> On 10/20/2014 04:08 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> >> 3) From a user's perspective, if they see configuration for a service or
> >> application in their package list, they may assume that package is
> >> installed and running, leading to confusion.
> > 
> > That is more worrying, yes.
> 
> If showing a separate package in the installed package list is a
> problem, then the configuration files could be shipped directly in the
> fedora-release-* packages too. Which also incidentally makes the whole
> thing much easier to handle because that way we'd have less conflicting
> packages in the repository.
> 
> I'm sure there are downsides to this though, like configuration possibly
> getting out of sync with the actual programs if nobody takes care of
> updating the fedora-release-* packages.



Polluting the fedora-release packages with internal details of other
packages seems like a terrible idea to me, honestly. Configuration
should remain with the package (and packager) that understands it.

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