On 12/05/2012 03:06 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Matthew Miller (mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org) 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