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FedoraFedoraPosted Oct 28, 2010 21:49 UTC (Thu) by brugolsky (subscriber, #28)Parent article: The State of Conary
My biggest misgiving about Fedora is that it didn't adopt Conary. Fedora is fantastic in so many ways, but has long been hampered by a delivery/management model that makes it awkward to deploy. Red Hat is pushing hard into virtualization, and yet it seems that file-level granularity and Conary's separation of policy and mechanism is a much more natural fit for replicated environments like VMs and containers.
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Fedora Posted Oct 28, 2010 22:52 UTC (Thu) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639) [Link]
I wouldn't say I'd have misgivings over it. There was a moment in time that I was hopeful that it was possible... but packaging is a very difficult inertia to get over...and you have to pick your battles.
But conary is really really interesting and I continue to think its not really had its day in the sun just yet. I'm actually more surprised that Google didn't adopt it over the portage system when moving away from traditional packaging when it revamped its ChromeOS development.
I think for conary to really have its day its going to take a greenfield consumer oriented development project to really put it front and center in people's attention. ChromeOS could have been that project, but other opportunities will arise at some point.
-jef
Fedora Posted Nov 10, 2010 2:48 UTC (Wed) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
I am disappointed that Boots didn't take off and show us what is actually possible. I hope it does go further.
Boots Posted Nov 24, 2010 13:46 UTC (Wed) by michaelkjohnson (subscriber, #41438) [Link]
Based on rPath's experience importing RHEL, CentOS, and SLES, I think I've figured out how to do Boots with less work, which makes it a little more likely to actually happen. We'll see how much free time I can shake loose to help out...
I'm hoping that Boots is not a Norwegian Blue, that it really is "merely sleeping". :-)
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