* Sascha Peilicke <[email protected]> [Jan 22. 2014 14:19]:
> 
> Mucho agreed. I strongly vote for keeping parallel-installability. For 
> several 
> products (like Cloud) this is a must-have.

Hmm, I somewhat struggle with that. Why's it a 'must-have' ?


> And it's already present in openSUSE (and thus SLE12).

Well, this proposal is about removing this parallel-installability for
SLE12.

> 
> > 
> > > 2. Ruby will be part of inst-sys (for YaST)
> 
> 
> Another good reason why you want parallel installs. ATM ruby-2.1 is fresh 
> like 
> cheese. But this version on SLE_X. Let 6 years pass and take one of our Ruby-
> based products. It will likely use ruby-42 by then. You can't drop ruby21 
> because of yast but you need ruby42 because of $PRODUCT...

I'm pretty sure we will be able to adapt yast to ruby-4.2. So this
argument does not hold for me.

> > > 
> > > 5. ruby-macros ?
> > > 
> > >     This would be a new name for ruby-common, a package only used for
> > >     building ruby GEM packages.
> > >     Actually, I'm not happy about the name. It should reflect the package
> > >     usage. ruby-devel-build or ruby-build-macros could be alternatives.
> 
> Dunno if it's worth discussing package names but it's established practice to 
> name RPM macro packages for software foo $FOO as $FOO-macros or $FOO-rpm-
> macros. Maybe the later is more obvious.

Yes, ruby-rpm-macros seems like a good name.


Klaus
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