On 5 December 2012 14:50, Jared K. Smith <jsmith(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin(a)scrye.com>
wrote:
> I think this tells us more about puppet than Fedora actually. ;(
I couldn't have said it better than this myself.
The biggest reason people are really pushing for software collections
(at least from what little I've seen them discussed publicly) is that
particular programs only work with specific versions of an application
stack. I don't know much about Ruby, but it seems to be the prime
target here -- Puppet only wants to run on one version, and Rails only
wants to run on another. I would argue that this is much more
indicative of a potential problem in the Ruby ecosystem, not of a
potential problem in Fedora. Now again, I don't know much about Ruby,
and maybe I'm missing something key here. I'm willing to be
enlightened if I am.
I think from the OS side of view, it is a problem with the various
stacks.. from the application developer trying to get it done, it is
a problem with the OS. In the gray center of systems administration...
it is a problem with both. I am going with nottings heretical view.
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