On Wed, 2017-05-17 at 10:06 -0400, Pat Suwalski wrote: > On 2017-05-16 07:10 PM, Mattias Bengtsson wrote: > > How did you install GitLab? We use the omnibus RPM package for > > CentOS > > and have had no dependency problems while upgrading from some 7.x > > release all the way to 9.1.x over the last few years. A lot come > > bundled in the omnibus package and the rest gets installed from the > > host operating system repositories. > > There's the difference. I don't trust the current omnibus package, so > I install from source. That decision is old, but at the time we > installed, there wasn't an omnibus package.
There lies your problem I believe. I'm pretty sure this doesn't apply to GNOME. > A proper package would rely on system libraries only. Shipping software, targeting multiple Linux distributions is hard. > Anyway, this is getting off-topic. Using the only appropriate > install method for this package takes considerable effort. It is. I don't agree that a manual installation from source is "the only appropriate install method". That is a rather extreme position to take and one I'm sure our sysadmins doesn't hold. In short, I don't consider this an issue. Regards, Mattias _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
