Re: Fedora 32 System-Wide Change proposal: Modules in Non-Modular Buildroot

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Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> 3) We need to get the policy I described above written onto -stone
> tablets- the Packaging Guidelines and then we need to go and make any
> stream that isn't compliant with it a non-default stream.

But then we need a policy that requires a default version (non-modular or at 
least a default stream) to be available. Otherwise we end up with packages 
that are not installable out of the box because they have no default version 
at all.

Matthew Miller wrote:
> How would this act in the case where a default stream depends on a
> non-default stream?

>From a policy standpoint, that non-default stream then ought to be bound by 
the same rules as default streams. But allowing a default stream to depend 
on a non-default stream paves the way for version conflicts to happen, so I 
am not convinced that it is a good idea to begin with.

> (And how would restricting default streams to only be able to depend on
> default streams change things?)

It would solve the version conflicts issue, so it makes a lot of sense, but 
at that point, why not require the default versions to just be non-modular 
instead? The main argument for using default streams was that they can 
depend on non-default streams of other modules. So if we disallow this 
(which I think makes sense), we may as well disallow default streams 
entirely and simplify things for everyone. (We would just need a short-term 
workaround for the default streams that exist now. The problem would be gone 
in the long run.)

        Kevin Kofler
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