Proposal: Split Fedora into sub-distributions

[Les Mikesell]

Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> 
> To be honest, anyone who says infrastructure should be a breeze to
> maintain... has to define breeze...

Is the FHS spec - or compliance - ever going to reach a point where it 
is possible to have distribution-agnostic packages?  Or even source 
builds that completely integrate with the packaged components - so every 
little program doesn't need special maintenance and different copies for 
every distro/version before their users can run it?

> I have yet to see a build
> infrastructure anywhere that is a 'breeze'... too many frickin' corner
> cases.

That probably can't be completely eliminated for things that require 
version-specific features to work at all, but there must be some way to 
reduce the number of corners for things that just need standard 
services.  It doesn't make any sense to require human intervention to 
fix things to work because of differences on an OS that is supposed to 
be presenting a standard interface.  Rather than splintering the 
distributions to accommodate and create even more differences, shouldn't 
the effort go towards making that less necessary?

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   Les Mikesell
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