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

[Bohuslav Kabrda]

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> On Thu, 2012-12-06 at 02:57 -0500, Bohuslav Kabrda wrote:
> > Packaging two parallel versions of interpreters brings not only the
> > burden of maintaining them, but also the work to make them not
> > conflict. E.g. renaming binaries, checking shebangs all the time,
> > etc.
> > With SCLs, this is much simpler and more transparent (my POV). I
> > don't
> > think Fedora's Ruby-SIG is going to do that.
> > 
> Are you simply saying that you're not going to care for the issue
> making
> 2 SCL that depends on different version of Ruby simply not
> installable
> in parallel ?
> Or are you saying that the SCL will be confined in its own 'root' so
> they will not conflict ?
> 

I don't think I fully understand your question here. Every SCL is confined in its own root under /opt/.../name/root. So you can either do two SCLs, each with different Ruby version; one SCL with version different then what's in the system; or place both versions into the system, where I see the significant maintenance burden. The last option is the only currently possible in Fedora, but Ruby-SIG is not going to do that.
Does that answer it?

> Simo.
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Regards,
Bohuslav "Slavek" Kabrda.