On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 04:06:38PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 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>
I have a cautious leaning in favor of this heresy. (*Looks around for angry
villagers with torches*.) It seems like (eventually) the Software
Collections mechanism might provide part of the infrastructure for doing
that cleanly.
--
Matthew Miller ☁☁☁ Fedora Cloud Architect ☁☁☁ <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>