Proposal to reduce anti-bundling requirements

[Orion Poplawski]

On 09/15/2015 09:08 AM, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Matthew Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject.org> said:
>> A. Things that I care about keeping up to date are always moving too
>>    slowly.
>>
>> B. Things that I care about keeping stable are always moving too quickly.
>>
>> C. Things that I don't care about shouldn't bother me by having bugs,
>>    security holes, changes in interface or functionality, or security
>>    updates.
>>
>> D. And, for every value of "I", each set of _things_ is unique.
> 
> Shoot, not just for every value of "I", for every combination of "I" and
> "this system".  I have RHEL/CentOS systems where customer X wants new
> PHP but old MySQL, and customer Y wants stable PHP but new MariaDB.
> 

This is actually where I think COPR and Fedora merge nicely.  The Fedora
build/release model lends itself a bit easier to the fewer updates model.  The
COPR build model lends itself to having the latest version of a package
available for all releasees.  I'm starting to make use of this myself by
building certain packages that I want up to date everywhere in COPR and
enabling those repos on my systems.

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