Re: Rules for shadowing RHEL packages with EPEL modules

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On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 5:27 AM Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The following answers are just my opinions and not policy.
>
> On Fri, 23 Aug 2019 at 06:52, Petr Pisar <ppisar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Case: RHEL delivers an M module with no default stream, there is no S stream.
> > Can I add a new S stream into EPEL and make it default? I'm not sure this will
> > be allowed. There is a risk of creating conflicts between streams transitively
> > required by another default streams. (Remember the libgit2 module conflict
> > <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1717117>.)
> >
>
> I would be against that. However I am not sure how we would police
> that.. [because there is no one to do that kind of work.]
>

I'm not against making an EPEL module/ stream for a module already in RHEL8.
I am *very* against making it a default.
Even if the module in RHEL8 doesn't have a default.
You will be changing the RHEL8 experience for *all* EPEL8 users, even
if they have no interest in your module.
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