EPEL Questions about SCL during meeting (was: Anybody has something for agenda for Env-and-Stacks WG meeting today? (2014-09-09))

[Dave Johansen]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 03:51:00PM +0200, Honza Horak wrote:
> > However, there are and will be cases where somebody would like to
> > create a non-SCL RPM depended on a software collection, which is
> > something not solved properly yet and the solution might be quite
> > different from collection to collection.
>
> This makes me kind of scared. I'm all for the first sort of software
> collection, but I think limiting this helps constrain the problem set.
>
> (Although I don't think such packages should be limited from, eg, Fedora
> Playground.)
>

I'm not sure how/if this matters on Fedora, but for EL, being able to use
devtoolset would be a big gain and would allow for inclusion of packages
that require a newer compiler than gcc 4.4 that comes with RHEL 6 (
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/epel-devel/2013-September/008737.html
).
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