Using Arrow on RHEL/CentOS/Rocky and related linux distros

[Benson Muite]

Arrow releases are distributed as an RPM package for these 
distributions.  However, many dependencies are bundled with the released 
RPMs, which may make using them in other software problematic.  Software 
collections[1] are similar to Python virtual envs for RPM based 
distributions.  They would enable unbundling dependencies and make it 
easier to build on top of Arrow releases for RHEL and related 
distributions. As an example Milvus uses Arrow, but releases of Arrow 
used often lag behind the latest Arrow release[2].  For those that 
use/build on top of RPM based distributions, would you consider 
using/building on top of an Arrow software collection?

1) https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/
2) 
https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus/blob/master/internal/core/thirdparty/arrow/CMakeLists.txt