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

[Jon Masters]

On 12/05/2012 04:06 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Matthew Miller (mattdm at fedoraproject.org) said: 
>> Three things:
>>
>> 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>

That would be *epicly* *awesome* in so many ways, and it'll never happen.

Jon.