On Thu, 6 Dec 2012, Jan Zelený wrote:
The original use case for SCLs is to provide a way to deliver newer versions
of SW in stable distributions like RHEL/CentOS than those available in the
core system and make sure system packages and collection packages don't
collide in any way (names, libraries, system paths, ...).
right and the motivators for the above are customers/users who have to
deal with their developers complaining about wanting a
specific/newer/older/intermediate version of some language or another and
its modules.
they complain to their ops people, they complain to fedora/red hat.
-sv