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

Miloslav Trmač mitr at volny.cz
Tue Dec 11 18:09:18 UTC 2012


On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Jon Masters <jcm at redhat.com> wrote:
> I'd love LSB to matter more. But I didn't raise that can of worms
> intentionally :) To drill down to a single point though, as I said
> above, I don't want the distro to ship every piece of software I might
> use. Today, there is too much of a focus on doing it that way where I
> think there would be more value (to those who use third party software
> or who are pondering downstream consumers of Fedora also) in having a
> smaller core and treating everything that comes on top equally.

Yeah, our "how to join Fedora" process makes it easiest to start by
adding to the number of packages instead of by adding to the quality
of existing packages.  It might be beneficial to have things the other
way - if someone could find a practical way to do it.
    Mirek


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