Notices by Fabio Valentini (decathorpe@mastodon.social)

@aral @ceremus Yeah ... this time it was flagged by an actual person, and your post was hidden by a moderator for being "off-topic". I don't understand nor do agree with this assessment, but I don't want to just override another moderator's decision here, either 😐

@aral @JoshStrobl This is what I see as a moderator ... I pushed the button to approve it, so it should be visible now.

(potentially toxic, accuracy: 11% does not inspire confidence in that automatic classification though)

@aral The problem is ... how big is "too big"? How should the governance structure look like for servers with > 1 users? I don't assume you're suggesting that everyone runs their own "server of one".

@aral As far as I know, there's no such thing as "directed posts" on Mastodon, so you just described a feature request for something you'd want to work - that's not "first principles", but ok 😅

Either way, even if there's no distinction at the protocol level (yet), it should be relatively straightforward for clients to implement something like that and not show "directed toots" in feeds ...

@aral You're saying it should work exactly the same way it works on Twitter? 🤔

@aral I wonder how that would work? You'd need to re-write RPM contents on-the-fly to change file paths of their contents from prefix=/usr to prefix=whatever, and I doubt that this would result in working packages (without rebuilding everything) ... or do you mean to have dnf5 install them inside pet containers, like those managed by toolbx?

@aral Flatpak works great for this ... but it's awful for CLI apps.

Side note: Parts of rpm-ostree are written in Rust, and the package for it is one of the worst we have. 😆

@aral Red Hat chooses to do Rust packages in a really awful way in RHEL, so I guess they don't "need" anyone to do it well in Fedora ...

I've also talked with people who work at Red Hat, and apparently there isn't even an organizational unit where this work would fit in - there is no "Rust team", just various teams with projects that now include Rust code, but they all "cook their own soup" (not sure how well this German idiom translates to English)

strange thought:

If I got 1$ per month for every package I maintain for Fedora Linux, that would basically be enough money to live on ...

Popular packages I'm responsible for include:

- the new Sequoia based GPG backend for RPM (present on *every single Fedora 38 install*)
- CLI tools like ripgrep, exa, lsd, bat
- Rust bindings for GLib, GTK3, GTK4, GStreamer, etc. (which are used to build librsvg2, gnome-tour, helvum, etc.)

so ... who wants to adopt some packages? 😁
https://github.com/sponsors/decathorpe