On 2019-10-04, Miro Hrončok <mhroncok@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Wouldn't it be easier if the "default stream" would just behave like > a regular package? > > I can think of two solutions of that: > > 1. (drastic for modular maintainers) > > We keep miantaining the default versions of things as ursine packages. > We only modularize alternate versions. > Big con: That effectively bans modules with multiple dependencies where at least one is a default version. Example: I have Perl 5.26 as a default version. I have Perl 5.30 as an laternative version. Now I want to package Bugzilla that's written in Perl. How do you package Bugzilla so that it works with Perl 5.26 as well as with Perl 5.30? If each of the Perls is a stream of a module, you will put Bugzilla into a module and let it depend on any of the Perls. User can install any of the Perls and Bugzilla. With your proposal Bugzilla packager would have to package Bugzilla twice: as a normal package for default Perl 5.26 and as a module for Perl 5.30. Then a user would have hard time to select the right combinations of Perl and Bugzilla. It would double fork work pacakgers and and make the system more dificult for users. -- Petr _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
