On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 3:54 PM Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Christopher Engelhard wrote:
> Personally, I like a solution along the lines of what e.g. Kevin Kofler
> suggested earlier, that is
>
> 1) every package has a default version
> 2) any default version can only depend on default versions
> 3) the package manager distinguishes between 'install default, which
> happens to be version X' and 'install version X, which happens to be
> default', with automatic upgrade of 'X -> X' and 'default -> default'
> being OK and 'X -> default' or 'default -> X' requiring user intervention
> 4) where (2) cannot be achieved, we use compat packages as before
>
> though I freely admit that I absolutely cannot judge how difficult that
> is to actually implement.
The easiest way to implement this is actually to simply make the default
versions non-modular again and ship only alternate versions as modules
(i.e., Miro's proposal).
I am currently working up a report on what exactly that will entail. I hope to have it ready to share tomorrow.
Kevin Kofler
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