On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 10:19:15AM -0400, Nick Mathewson wrote:
On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 10:06 AM, nusenu nusenu@openmailbox.org wrote:
What is the Tor Project's motivation for providing RPMs (instead of relying on the RPM distro maintainer)?
Frankly, I don't know. I don't actually install Tor from packages myself, since I'm nearly always running Tor from master.
People who download our RPMs: in what way are they beneficial?
The last time I had occasion to check (around 6 months ago), the official Tor Project RPMs were actually worse than the Fedora ones: worse integration with Fedora's systemd configuration, no SELinux, and they didn't uninstall cleanly, meaning you had to manually clean up permissions issues in order to switch back to the Fedora packages.
Given that maintaining packages is an ongoing effort that requires keeping track of how the distribution is configuring their system, wouldn't it be better to find a way to work with the existing distro maintainers so that, for instance, the current Fedora RPMs could be the officially-endorsed Tor Project RPMs?
Cheers, Henry de Valence