On Tuesday 2019-11-19 09:46, Simon Lees wrote:
All this probably applies to other languages as well, though it may be that there only the package management part is a problem there, not too fast evolving core tools.
Unfortunately as parts of SLE start to make use of some of these languages it becomes more complex then that. Many of the reasons we do the things we do the way we do at the moment are that it makes our compliance processes significantly easier (and in many cases possible at all).
An alternative would be to devote the manned resources to not grow minute dependencies on large stacks. (That ship has probably sailed in terms of firefox-in-the-distro, but thinking back in time: ruby's sole raison d'être in today's default install is just for yast2, which is more or less locally controlled.) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org