On Fri, 2023-09-29 at 19:11 +0000, Martin Schreiner via openSUSE Factory wrote:
What we need: The goal of this thread is to establish a line of discussion around this change, which should be a gradual one on Factory. All opinions, comments, ideas and criticism are valid, and will be taken into consideration.
Status: There are currently 14909 spec files on openSUSE:Factory. 964 (6.46%) of these depend on update-alternatives.
One major concern I have is the build system it uses. Currently it relies on cmake, which is not part of Ring0. So anything in ring0 has a hard time using libalternatives. If we can either port this to meson (or autoconf, if it must be) we could win that battle easily though. We try to keep the distro bootstrap as small as possible (and thus veto everything new as much as we can) Cheers, Dominique