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

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2012-12-05 at 22:25 -0600, Michael Ekstrand wrote:
> On 12/05/2012 03:06 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>
> 
> FWIW (probably not much), I also think this is a great idea.  It feels
> strange to me that the same thing contains & manages everything from
> base system (e.g. kernel through core GNOME stack) and add-on apps (say
> Battle for Wesnoth, to pick a relatively obvious example).
> 
> Now, there's a bike shed to be painted over where the lines should be drawn.

We could draw them between Core and Extras!
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