Re: Fedora Modules & Fedora 27 Server Edition (Changes)

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On Mon, 2017-06-26 at 14:30 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 01:55:58PM -0400, langdon wrote:
> > Apologies, but I was talking about "available in the Fedora Server
> > repo". Specifically, we have a lofty goal that everything in that
> > repo would have a module wrapped around it. We may not get there
> > which triggers the choices above.
> 
> As Fedora stands today, of course, "the Fedora Server repo" means
> "all
> the stuff Fedora packages at all". At the extreme, even though we
> tell
> people that it's better to install Workstation or a desktop Spin if
> they want to add a GUI, you _can_ install GNOME or KDE on server.
> 
> I don't think we need to support the extreme on Fedora Server (as an
> edition) in the future (although I think we should do what we can to
> allow community members to compose such a thing of their own if they
> want it). But, we should set a goal like 60% of packages
> which make sense in a server install available to modular server in
> F27, and 95% by F28. (Where those specific numbers are just made up.)
> 
> That can be done by:
> 
>   - Every RPM that's not a library (or library-like) becomes a
> module.
>     Like, basically everything in `dnf group info system-tools`, plus
>     cowsay.
> 
>   - Lumping some of these tools logically into "network admin tools",
>     "file archive/backup/sync", "benchmarking", or whatever. (This
>     seems... hard to get right.)
> 
>   - Bigger split without real attempt to categorize, like "Random CLI
>     tools" and "Random GUI tools" modules.
> 
>   - Gigantic "Everything Else!" module.
> 
>   - Allowing package installs from the unmodularized Fedora
> repository,
>     and doing something fancy to avoid trouble.
This has been tried by AltLinux, they were using Group tag to organize
packages into small repositories and after all they went back for one
big repository because of cross-dependencies, questions where to put
what and probably other problems.
> 
> -- 
> Matthew Miller
> <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Fedora Project Leader
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