On 12/05/2012 03:06 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Matthew Miller (mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) said: >> Three things: >> >> 1) Fedora is big enough that we have concrete situations where one size >> doesn't fit all. Puppet being broken on F17 (and probably F18 as well) >> is a fine example of something within the distro itself. And, as a >> platform for development, offering more version choices to our users >> would be a strength. > > <heretical> > > Well, then maybe Fedora's too big, and we should move to a model where > Fedora is much smaller, and the grand Fedora universe contains things that > are packaged *for* one or multiple Fedoras. > > </heretical> FWIW (probably not much), I also think this is a great idea. It feels strange to me that the same thing contains & manages everything from base system (e.g. kernel through core GNOME stack) and add-on apps (say Battle for Wesnoth, to pick a relatively obvious example). Now, there's a bike shed to be painted over where the lines should be drawn. I wouldn't at all mind even seeing multiple packaging systems at work - RPM manages the core system, and something like PC-BSD's PBIs used for “applications”. But it does seem unlikely to ever happen, at least in the context of an existing distribution. - Michael -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
