Re: What would it take to make Software Collections work in Fedora?
[Posted December 19, 2012 by jake]
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| Adam Williamson <awilliam-AT-redhat.com> |
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| Re: What would it take to make Software Collections work in Fedora? |
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| Wed, 05 Dec 2012 22:00:14 -0800 |
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On Wed, 2012-12-05 at 22:25 -0600, Michael Ekstrand wrote:
> On 12/05/2012 03:06 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > 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>
>
> FWIW (probably not much), I also think this is a great idea. It feels
> strange to me that the same thing contains & manages everything from
> base system (e.g. kernel through core GNOME stack) and add-on apps (say
> Battle for Wesnoth, to pick a relatively obvious example).
>
> Now, there's a bike shed to be painted over where the lines should be drawn.
We could draw them between Core and Extras!
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