Re: Proposed official change to EPEL guidelines: modules and RHEL

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On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 11:27:46AM -0500, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> From my also little understanding of modularity, this is so you can
> reinstall base perl packages. In some ways ( I am glossing over things
> here), modular rpms always beat bare rpms because a module can put in rules
> to say 'you can install this package but it does not work with these rpms
> so they need to be removed'. So I think any modules we write which would
> over-ride non-modular packages, we would also need to write a 'get me back
> my f'ing defaults' module which stubs in a similar way the perl and some
> other modules do.

No, this is not the case. If the module isn't enabled its packages will just
be ignored. It's only if you enable the module that you get the RPMs from
that module.



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Matthew Miller
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