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Drop support for system packages

Maintaining support for RedHat and Debian packages constrains the third party packages that can be used by this project to build a modern, flexible data discovery system.

I am tempted to drop support for these distributions and focus support on just the following

  • pypi-based distribution (pip or uv)
  • containers (based on installing packages from PyPI)

This ticket is meant to track comments/concerns from various stakeholder groups, and to track the progress of actually dropping this support, which will include improving the containerisation support.