Per-Product Config file divergence

[Chris Murphy]

On Mar 10, 2014, at 10:10 AM, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> wrote:

> At last week's FESCo meeting, the fact that Products desired to have
> divergent configuration was briefly touched on.  On Thursday, a few FPC
> members had a brainstorming session about it and on Friday, sgallagh and
> that brainstorming continued with sgallagh, adamw, tflink, notting, and
> myself.  We came up with a tentative idea here:
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Toshio/Product_Divergence_(config)
> 
> The idea is to allow config file divergence via the alternatives system as
> that already provides us with a commandline tool and some structure to build
> on.  We'd still have to write a few pieces to complete the picture but it
> seemed to be a better starting point than using rpm Conflicts between
> config-packages.
> 
> Anyone have thoughts on this potential path?

What will fedup updates of Fedora 20 look like? Would there be a flag, e.g. --product cloud/workstation/server? If not specified do we fail, or is there a default?

Or is this getting too far ahead of things?

Chris Murphy