Re: Ursa Major (modules in buildroot) enablement

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Dne 09. 11. 18 v 3:33 Kevin Kofler napsal(a):
> Neal Gompa wrote:
>> Moreover, as it stands, I don't think modularity provides any quality
>> of life improvements for packagers within Fedora (it adds extra steps
>> and makes it confusing to figure out what is maintained),
> There is one I can see in that it allows packagers to make their packages 
> depend on incompatible library versions, which makes their job easier (by 
> not having to care about compatibility, patching for different library 
> versions, etc.)


The advantage for packagers is just temporary, as long as the
(supposedly) older library they still use is maintained. One day, they
will need to move forward. This is just postponing the inevitable.


V.


>  at the expense of the users that are left with an unsolvable 
> Module Hell and the total impossibility to install the software they need.
>
> But obviously, I think this is a very poor tradeoff. Helping packagers must 
> not happen at the end users' expense!
>
>         Kevin Kofler
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