Joe Orton wrote:
> So it's clear to me that you see that packagers chosing default streams
> over non-modular packages impose external costs on the rest of the
> distro (packagers and/or users?) somehow. This thread was supposed to
> focus on benefits, and these vague claims about costs and trade-offs
> seem speculative, but maybe you could expand on that a bit?
Has this not already been mentioned in all the other threads?
Default streams:
* introduce upgrade path issues when upgrading to a newer Fedora,
* make it harder to replace packages with local versions (because the module
normally takes precedence over non-modular versions of the same packages),
* may introduce dependency version conflicts due to versioned dependencies
on other modules (whereas non-modular packages currently cannot depend on
non-default modules, and it should really stay that way),
and those are just the 3 obvious issues.
Dealing with upgrade path issues and dependency version conflicts and using
complicated workarounds to install local packages instead of the modular
ones definitely comes at a cost (users' time).
Kevin Kofler
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