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Re: What would it take to make Software Collections work in Fedora?

From:  Bill Nottingham <notting-AT-redhat.com>
To:  Development discussions related to Fedora <devel-AT-lists.fedoraproject.org>
Subject:  Re: What would it take to make Software Collections work in Fedora?
Date:  Wed, 5 Dec 2012 16:06:38 -0500
Message-ID:  <20121205210638.GA32438@nostromo.devel.redhat.com>
Archive-link:  Article, Thread

Matthew Miller (mattdm@fedoraproject.org) said: 
> Three things:
> 
> 1) Fedora is big enough that we have concrete situations where one size
>    doesn't fit all. Puppet being broken on F17 (and probably F18 as well)
>    is a fine example of something within the distro itself. And, as a
>    platform for development, offering more version choices to our users
>    would be a strength.

<heretical>

Well, then maybe Fedora's too big, and we should move to a model where
Fedora is much smaller, and the grand Fedora universe contains things that
are packaged *for* one or multiple Fedoras.

</heretical>

Bill
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