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

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 5 December 2012 14:50, Jared K. Smith <jsmith at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin at 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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