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

[Bill Nottingham]

Marcela Mašláňová (mmaslano at redhat.com) said: 
> >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.

I would suspect, actually, that upgrading to a later LibreOffice is
fairly simple on a 'stable' release, if it was built for that release.
The problem comes when the only newer LibreOffice is built for the next
Fedora release, so it's linked against newer libicu/boost/clucene/etc/etc
that's only available in that later Fedora release, even though it doesn't
specifically *require* those newer library versions.

Of course, just doing an update for an older release breaks those who want
the older release to maintain stability at all costs. So the LibreOffice
case could be fixed by merely defining what's inside the always-stable set
vs. what's outside it and can be updated more frequently (and convincing
the maintainer to do so with LibreOffice.)

Bill