While the Omnibus packages are nice, focusing on them and neglect the gitlab-only packages makes life harder for other group of people.
Some of us want to reuse the pgsql/redis instances we are already running. For example, we already have pgsql for redmine and other uses, we don't want another, separate instance. Too bad that standalone packages working with system supplied (debian, centos) packages are non-existent.
We understand the appeal of native packages. There have never been any gitlab-only packages, so I don't think we're able to neglect them. In fact, we've been sponsoring Pirate Praveen to bring native packages to Debian and this is really close at the moment, see http://feedback.gitlab.com/forums/176466-deprecated-feedback...
Some of us want to reuse the pgsql/redis instances we are already running. For example, we already have pgsql for redmine and other uses, we don't want another, separate instance. Too bad that standalone packages working with system supplied (debian, centos) packages are non-existent.