On 5 December 2012 14:50, Jared K. Smith <jsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I think this tells us more about puppet than Fedora actually. ;( > > I couldn't have said it better than this myself. > > The biggest reason people are really pushing for software collections > (at least from what little I've seen them discussed publicly) is that > particular programs only work with specific versions of an application > stack. I don't know much about Ruby, but it seems to be the prime > target here -- Puppet only wants to run on one version, and Rails only > wants to run on another. I would argue that this is much more > indicative of a potential problem in the Ruby ecosystem, not of a > potential problem in Fedora. Now again, I don't know much about Ruby, > and maybe I'm missing something key here. I'm willing to be > enlightened if I am. I think from the OS side of view, it is a problem with the various stacks.. from the application developer trying to get it done, it is a problem with the OS. In the gray center of systems administration... it is a problem with both. I am going with nottings heretical view. > -- > Jared Smith > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel -- Stephen J Smoogen. "Don't derail a useful feature for the 99% because you're not in it." Linus Torvalds "Years ago my mother used to say to me,... Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant. Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me." —James Stewart as Elwood P. Dowd -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
