On 06/15/2016 01:24 AM, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
Well, if a packager wants to maintain it, why not?
>
>As someone who's a bit skeptical about containers as the future of software
>distribution, I'd like to continue getting "traditionally packaged"
>applications from Fedora where possible. I became a Fedora packager as a
>large part because I wanted to expand the pool of such software that was
>available in Fedora, by making it available to other users. It seems like
>that's not a thing we're going to care about as much going forward, which I
>guess is... fine, but I kind of have mixed feelings about the whole thing.
>
>I suspect I am in a minority here, though.
I hope you aren't, I share your sentiments exactly.
Count me among the sceptics. As Florian pointed out, containers are
convenient, but opaque: they bypass the technical process that is the
basis for Fedora's excellence. As such, they are a form of technical
debt: fine to a degree, but not a primary way to run your household.
It would be nice if there was a 'container snapshot' facility that would
convert between a native application package from Fedora or Debian and a
portable container---possibly both ways. Obviously, native->container is
desirable for portability; the opposite conversion is less obviously
useful but might be a basis for a cross-platform packaging process in
the future.
In my mind, containers are primarily useful to run arbitrary untrusted
third party applications, but of course they need a good enough sandbox
system for that. I hope such system will emerge from the current work.
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