I'm comfortable saying that most Fedora users are not installing the distro
just to support one specific application, as one might with RHEL or CentOS,
but to benefit from the Four Foundations of Fedora, in this case the most
important ones being Freedom, Features and First.
Exactly ... this is what I believe, too. I think that Fedora users put Fedora on their
desktops and laptops to be creative in many ways of creativity. Some make make music,
some enhance pictures, some model in Blender, cut videos, write documents.
The majority, I dare to say, is not interested in having several Inkscape versions, they
want the newest yet stable enough and they are satisfied with that.
It'd be great to have a working modular system, but since we don't seem to
have that, it's not a good idea to force the broken implementation on users.
We need to consider what is best for Fedora's users, not what is best for Red
Hat, at least in my opinion.
Fedora modules must be ready to work in all possible combinations and streams, if we really
mean it seriously. For example, I as a user, want to install the newest version of Gimp, because I
need the newest features, but since the newest Scanner Application stopped supporting my device,
I need the penultimate one. I also play windows games with wine and I set the current version of
wine to suit my needs, so I want to stick with this version as long as possible and maybe even beyond,
and I also want an NFS share for my TV to consume, but because I am paranoid, I want to go 2 versions behind
the latest.
To make a long story short, I will need lots of different stream working in harmony and I will want
to upgrade my PC without any problems.
Until we can provide this, we should keep modularity as opt-in technology preview.
I see no reason that dropping certain parts of Modularity from actual releases
of Fedora will harm the relationship with Red Hat, as Stephen suggests. Such
tests can, and probably should, be done in Rawhide, until they're actually
ready for users.
So far, the best approach seems to be to remove default modules, and require a
non-modular version for fedora releases and branched. (In addition to whatever
packagers would package as modules. To clarify, I am not attempting to suggest
nothing should be done with Modularity except in Rawhide.)
This seems to me the easiest way to solve current problems.
We're not saying this to discourage you, at least that is not my goal. My goal
is to ensure the best result for the end user.
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