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

[Marcela Mašláňová]

On 12/06/2012 05:08 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 10:50:03AM -0500, Mark Bidewell wrote:
>> I used to use Fedora as my primary OS (Now I use a Mac).  The major issue
>> which drove me away and which I believe SC would help to solve is that with
>> the current dependency model is that it becomes I want a new version of
>> Libreoffice so now I have to upgrade my entire system from the Kernel on up
>> (and by upgrade I mean clean install) to avoid issues.  SC would help
>> decouple system and userland apps which would do wonders for usability.
>
> You're using a Mac now, so good luck.
>
> But I'm pretty sure that software collections would not have helped
> you to upgrade Libreoffice.  Which, by the way, is possible without
> upgrading everything: just compile the later SRPMs.  In other words,
> create your own backports repository, and find a group of people who
> have the same problem to share the security and maintenance burden
> around.
>
> Rich.
>
In that case he might use gentoo ;-) On the other hand create a 
collection for LibreOffice and support it would be a lot of work.

Marcela