On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 10:50:03AM -0500, Mark Bidewell wrote: > I used to use Fedora as my primary OS (Now I use a Mac). The major issue > which drove me away and which I believe SC would help to solve is that with > the current dependency model is that it becomes I want a new version of > Libreoffice so now I have to upgrade my entire system from the Kernel on up > (and by upgrade I mean clean install) to avoid issues. SC would help > decouple system and userland apps which would do wonders for usability. You're using a Mac now, so good luck. But I'm pretty sure that software collections would not have helped you to upgrade Libreoffice. Which, by the way, is possible without upgrading everything: just compile the later SRPMs. In other words, create your own backports repository, and find a group of people who have the same problem to share the security and maintenance burden around. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
