On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 4:09 AM Tom Hughes <tom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 13/02/2019 08:05, Neal Gompa wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 2:58 AM Ron Yorston <rmy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> What is a "module-only" package? > > > > These are packages that move from the main Fedora distribution into > > the addon "fedora-modular" repo that is enabled by default on Fedora > > systems. > > > > There are a couple of consequences of this: > > > > * They are no longer available for regular packages to use as build dependencies > > * Only DNF (the CLI tool) can manage them. PackageKit and dnfdragora > > can't do anything with them yet. > > I don't think that second consequence is entirely true. > > As I understand the the default module stream remains available > in the main repo and hence would be installable with things that > don't understand modules. There would be no ability to switch to > an alternate stream with other tools though. > That's not true. If the modulemd isn't processed, all the RPMs are evaluated and the repo looks like a completely conflicting pile of nonsense. This is what makes PackageKit and dnfdragora scream. Though they don't crash on it anymore, which is a good thing. :) -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
