[fab] Non-standard kernels in the Fedora Multiverse

[Christopher Blizzard]

seth vidal wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 11:08 -0400, Christopher Blizzard wrote:
>> Yeah, here's another example of the dichotomy:
>>
>> seth vidal wrote:
>>> Some complexity in enabling Alternatives:
>>>  1. we can't enable alternatives by default - the obsoletes it could
>>> allow would eat packages for people who really just want to use core.
>>>  2. create a sensible way of dealing with conflicts - something we don't
>>> really need to deal with right now.
>> Inside of Fedora
>>
>>>  3. dealing with alternative tree creation and QA. What if a user
>>> creates a fedora 'distro' using an alternatives kernel? How does that
>>> impact testing? How do we cope with the near endless number of
>>> combination or configurations we might get?
>> and creating full Fedora variants.
>>
>> What we really need to be focused on is a better comps system. 
>> Something that doesn't just know about packages but also knows about 
>> repos and replacing some packages with packages from other repositories. 
>>   Our current systems are built around "one Fedora to rule them all" and 
>> that's just not going to work anymore.
>>
> 
> Do we need to be focused on that? It seems like it's a pretty serious
> edge case but we need to make sure we have the core case working before
> trailing off after edge cases.

The cases that I see that it enables are:

One Laptop per Child
LiveCD
this music thing

Good number of reasonable cases there, at least from where I sit.

--Chris