On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Bohuslav Kabrda <bkab...@redhat.com>wrote:
> Just a quick note:
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me that you (and some other
> people) don't distinguish between tooling for accommodating multiple
> versions of packages and actually supporting these packages.
> To me, these are very different aspects - should RPM/YUM be able to
> support multiple parallel versions without the naming hacks? Yes. Should
> Fedora as a distro support numbers of multiple versions of packages? In my
> opinion, we should try to keep counts of supported packages minimal, as we
> do now. But that doesn't really depend on _how_ we package the stuff.
> This is about providing the tooling to people who actually want to
> maintain these more versions in their private repositories or whatever.
>
Yes. The desire to support multiple versions in Fedora _and_ not use them
in Fedora is schizophrenic, and it leads to conflicted attitudes and
emotions ("I don't want unmaintained crap in my distribution!").
Perhaps actually having a "Fedora extras" where multiple versions etc. are
allowed and expected would clean the air and make it easier to discuss this
:) But then we can't set up a multi-version repository before having a
liked multi-version mechanism...
Mirek
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