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

Simo Sorce simo at redhat.com
Thu Dec 6 13:59:12 UTC 2012


On Thu, 2012-12-06 at 02:57 -0500, Bohuslav Kabrda wrote:
> Packaging two parallel versions of interpreters brings not only the
> burden of maintaining them, but also the work to make them not
> conflict. E.g. renaming binaries, checking shebangs all the time, etc.
> With SCLs, this is much simpler and more transparent (my POV). I don't
> think Fedora's Ruby-SIG is going to do that. 
> 
Are you simply saying that you're not going to care for the issue making
2 SCL that depends on different version of Ruby simply not installable
in parallel ?
Or are you saying that the SCL will be confined in its own 'root' so
they will not conflict ?

Simo.

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