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

[Seth Vidal]

On Thu, 6 Dec 2012, Jan Zelený wrote:

>
> Well, not exactly, you would still need to upgrade all packages that the new
> version of Libreoffice depends on and all packages these updated packages depend
> on and so on ... The only difference is that these updated packages would need
> to be a part of the collection while keeping the rest of the system intact.
> However the maintenance burden would be even higher, as maintainers would need
> to take care of multiple versions of packages in each Fedora.
>
> Bottom line, the final effect for user wouldn't be much different from current
> state of things (in fact it might get even more complicated by the non-trivial
> way how programs in collections are executed). Therefore this isn't exactly
> the use case SCLs try solve.
>

I find it interesting that we've not really named the use case that SCLs 
are trying to solve for. It appears to be for the case of a developer who 
wants to run against a specific version of something (normally a language 
or module for that language)

-sv