Colin Watson writes ("Re: concerns about Salsa"):
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 02:37:16PM +0200, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote:
> > I wonder then, if a lot of people prefer deploy a service from
> > upstream's git repo/cookbooks, what is the purpose of packaging?
> > Who would benefit from it and who should use package-distros?This is a sensible question. > My experience has been that if I'm working on a complex service then I > want as little friction as possible for the fast-moving stuff that I'm > working on directly and so often end up deploying that straight from git > or whatever, but that I prefer to use packages for everything else below > that layer. > > I can perfectly well imagine taking different approaches to services > depending on whether I expected to be doing very hands-on maintenance > and/or development (in which case deploying from git is probably easier) > or whether I want to mostly leave them alone and deploy something that's > maybe not absolutely up to date but where somebody else is dealing with > most of the maintenance work (in which case packages would be > preferable). I agree entirely. Ian. -- Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> These opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.
