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

[Fernando Nasser]

What is the difficult on adding a file to yum.repo.d ?

It is designed for that.  Each initial page for an aditional repo would
have instructions on how to activate it and provide a repo file to copy from.



----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones at redhat.com>
> To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" <devel at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 4:42:39 PM
> Subject: Re: What would it take to make Software Collections work in Fedora?
> 
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 03:18:42PM -0500, Fernando Nasser wrote:
> > > From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones at redhat.com>
> > > So let's say the user has to add the OCaml repo themselves.
> > >  That's
> > > difficult for the user because lots of tools like "yum search" no
> > > longer work well.
> > > 
> > 
> > Really?  If I add several yum repos in my tum.repo.d  the yum
> > subcommands
> > operate over all those repos, son't they?  I am surprised by this
> > statement.
> 
> Obviously I mean that yum search and many other commands don't work
> until and unless the user knows (how?) what repo to add.  That means
> that you have to add the external repos for the user, or advertise
> them, which are incompatible as I explained.
> 
> > Did I overlook anything here?
> 
> Lots.
> 
> Rich.
> 
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