Fedora Being Talked About For "Software Collections"

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Fedora Being Talked About For "Software Collections"

To adjust the rate at which how fast software updates are forced onto users, some Fedora and Red Hat developers have made a "Software Collections" proposal. The purpose of Software Collections is to allow users to install a package and choose between different versions of RPM-packaged software in parallel at run-time...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTI0NDQ

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Phoronix: Fedora Being Talked About For "Software Collections"

To adjust the rate at which how fast software updates are forced onto users, some Fedora and Red Hat developers have made a "Software Collections" proposal. The purpose of Software Collections is to allow users to install a package and choose between different versions of RPM-packaged software in parallel at run-time...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTI0NDQ

Gentoo slots?

[fersla]

Gentoo slots?

Environment modules, albeit with automatic generation from the rpm/spec file?

[plonoma]

If only we had a convenient folder hierarchy for this.
Something like Gobolinux:http://www.gobolinux.org/

With something like this: http://www.gobolinux.org/?page=at_a_glance

[bwat47]

I really like this idea.

[droidhacker]

Well, I think that it is justified to include in Fedora IN ORDER TO include it in RHEL. Also, Fedora may have a short "shelf life", but that doesn't mean that people don't use it for longer periods of time. It is also more likely to be used as a desktop development environment than RHEL. In software development, it is often very important to be able to test against multiple alternative sets of software.