Re: Modularity and the system-upgrade path

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On Tuesday, October 15, 2019 9:07:51 PM MST Neal Gompa wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 12:05 AM John M. Harris Jr <johnmh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Tuesday, October 15, 2019 6:26:31 PM MST Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> > 
> > > given that we're talking about the need to migrate defaults
> >
> >
> >
> > To clarify, that has not been decided, and a prominent option mentioned
> > in
> > this thread is the option to simply require that there is a non-modular
> > package.
> >
> >
> 
> 
> I think we can pretty much guarantee that's not going to happen.
> Unfortunately, modularization is a one-way road, given how modularity
> is implemented in DNF and how our distribution policies are currently
> structured.
> 
> It just means that people need to *really* think of the consequences
> of modularizing content, because there's basically no going back after
> that. We have no escape hatches or transition mechanisms to go from
> modular to non-modular variants of the same RPMs.

That's not what the proposal is. The proposal is to require a non-modular 
version, an "ursine package", for modular packages, instead of default 
modules.
-- 
John M. Harris, Jr.
Splentity

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