Ceph

dear Maintainers,

context¶

i'm working on packaging/updating Ceph for Guix (a Linux distro like NixOS).

Ceph has several dependencies included under src/, and it's causing headaches when packaging (Guix prefers to avoid bundling).

the quest that lead to creating this issue was my attempt to package a software that uses rocksdb, and for that i attempted to update rocksdb in guix. i leave the rest for your imagination... :)

actionable request¶

please avoid bundling dependencies whenever it's possible (i.e. when no unmerged patches are needed in the locally bundled software).

instead of bundling, please prefer using releases of the dependencies, or use e.g. git submodules to point to a specific commit when using releases are not good enough.

this would greatly simplify packaging Ceph.