On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 11:22:21AM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
Le dimanche 27 mai 2007 à 10:15 +0200, Patrice Dumas a écrit :
b) politically:
- cross-distro packaging is not an objective of the Fedora project.
Even between different fedora versions and fedora and Centos?
They all get their own branch in Fedora. We don't build one package to
That's not for packaged softwares, but for locally compiled executables.
fit all releases. We don't even use one source package to fit all releases. So yes cross-distro packaging is not an objective of the Fedora project, even for distributions we support directly.
It is not for fedora packages but for locally built executables. Say you build a program on a fedora distro and want to run it on a centos box. (My use case is a numerical model that use some libraries shipped in fedora, gsl, lapack or cernlib for example).
-- Pat