Mikolaj Izdebski wrote:
> Some modules are built in MBS/Koji but are never released to users.
> Currently such modules can only be used as build dependencies of other
> modules. In future, if solution like "ursa-major" [1] is implemented,
> such modules could also be used as build dependencies for non-modular
> packages.
>
> An example of buildroot-only module is javapackages-tools. This
> module is used as build dependency for 4 modules, but it is not
> included in any compose and it's not shipped to users.
>
> Should such modules be considered as allowed in Fedora?
IMHO, no, why should that be allowed? If you think it through, it
effectively means Fedora is no longer self-hosting.
If you need a module to build your packages, you also need to make that
module available to the users, if only to build their software.
Kevin Kofler
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