On Fri, Sep 27, 2019, at 12:52 PM, Thomas Oulevey wrote: > Hi Folks, > > > GCC 8 is the system compiler in EL8, so there's no devtoolset-8 for CentOS 8 (or RHEL 8, for that matter). There should be a devtoolset-9 soon for EL8. > > My understanding is that Application Streams [1] is replacing Software > collections for RHEL8 and therefore in C8. But it would be great if > someone from Red Hat could clarify this point. > That's the official marketing line. RH now ships their supported tomcat server as an SCL, even on RHEL 8, calling it "jws5." This may be because they still ship tomcat natively in the no-default-stream of the pki-deps module. (They don't want you to know that the easiest way to get it is `yum install 'bundled(tomcat)'`, nor can you repoquery disabled modules.) > One main difference is that SCLs can be installed in parallel while > Application streams cannot. > Agreed. I thought the `-syspaths` sub packages fixed the usability if SCLs pretty well, though. > [1]: > https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2018/11/15/rhel8-introducing-appstreams/ > V/r, James Cassell