Re: RH Software Collections

On 28 April 2016 at 13:19, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:

> This one looks intriguing.
>
> https://www.softwarecollections.org/
>
>
On further reading I see that it namespaces everything more completely than
I thought. You don't get to make things default with alternatives, it seems
to use a PATH wrapper 'scl' command.

It relies on Red Hat's COPR rather than providing an alternative to it, so
it doesn't add anything new or interesting for maintaining normal package
trees. COPR doesn't help with building srpms, versioning and maintaining
trees, etc, it just does builds and repo maintenance. Useful but not
exciting; it's a pity it can't build SRPMs from specs too.

So this isn't anything exciting.

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