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

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 03:18:42PM -0500, Fernando Nasser wrote:
> > From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones at redhat.com>
> > So let's say the user has to add the OCaml repo themselves.  That's
> > difficult for the user because lots of tools like "yum search" no
> > longer work well.
> > 
> 
> Really?  If I add several yum repos in my tum.repo.d  the yum subcommands
> operate over all those repos, son't they?  I am surprised by this statement.

Obviously I mean that yum search and many other commands don't work
until and unless the user knows (how?) what repo to add.  That means
that you have to add the external repos for the user, or advertise
them, which are incompatible as I explained.

> Did I overlook anything here?

Lots.

Rich.

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