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

Stephen John Smoogen smooge at gmail.com
Wed Dec 5 22:14:48 UTC 2012


On 5 December 2012 15:07, Simo Sorce <simo at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-12-05 at 16:10 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Isn't the risk that things will get more broken in collections, due to
> dependencies not being anymore strictly checked in a single repository
> and general disconnection between the 'main' repo and the specific
> collection ?

I would expect any sort of Software Collections would be a large
Installer Beware item where Fedora does not guarantee anything (it
works, it will have security fixes, it doesn't break other stuff) and
it is between the Installer and the SC group that made the "bundle" to
deal with those issues.

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