Re: Modularity: The Official Complaint Thread

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Orion Poplawski wrote:
> I find the global exclusion of packages built but not shipped in an
> enabled module baffling and makes it very hard to provide
> updates/alternatives to those packages.
[snip]
> Beyond the horrible UX above, this seems so counter to the idea that we
> are building a platform upon which others can build and extend.  In this
> case I can simply disable the rhn-tools module, but what if I wanted
> something else from that module?

Indeed, this is absolutely unacceptable.

> Hopefully the UX is better in Fedora (I haven't tested), but I believe the
> exclusion property remains.

As far as I know, Fedora has exactly the same broken implementation.

For Fedora, this issue is quite easy to fix though: modules in Fedora should 
not be allowed to build but not ship packages to begin with!

        Kevin Kofler
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