On 09/24/2016 12:33 PM, Ben Rosser wrote:
On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 11:50 AM, Stephen John Smoogen
<smooge(a)gmail.com
<mailto:smooge@gmail.com>> wrote:
It isn't considered a problem for a couple of reasons:
1) Editions are not meant to be combined so they are in many ways
'mutually' exclusive at least at the 'top' level. Yes the packages
are
built from the same builders but it is meant that package choices or
lifetimes could be different.
Sure, but currently, it seems to be the case that if I sit down at, say, a
Fedora Server or Fedora Workstation system and install some piece of software,
it will install in "the same way". By this I don't so much mean packaging
format, but in terms of compile time options enabled, optional dependencies
installed, etc. Is this something that is no longer considered desirable?
We actually do have a mechanism in place for allowing them to install
differently in certain very specific ways:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Per-Product_Configuration
This doesn't directly include compilation-changed packages (though with some
serious gymnastics it could happen with alternative packages), but it does allow
an edition to run with a different default configuration.