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

[Jon Masters]

On 12/06/2012 01:00 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> 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 at 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!

:) Note that just because we got rid of Core doesn't mean that it was a
bad idea. Ubuntu even adopted a "Core" of their own a while back. Maybe
they'll have the same experience we had and get away from that, or maybe
Linux distributions should ultimately not be in the business of
providing all+kitchen sink. Speaking only personally, what I want is a
stable core platform of very limited size against which I can install
other packages and stacks.

Jon.