-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On Mon, 2020-06-22 at 09:19 +0200, Petr Pisar wrote: > On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 02:53:56PM -0400, David Cantrell wrote: > > Around the idea and concept of modularity... what are the benefits > > to Fedora, > > Fedora developers, and Fedora contributors? Through the various > > discussions > > on modularity, nothing solid in this regard has been presented. If > > I am > > Fedora contributor now, what can modularity do for me? > > > It can define a build order among packages of a module. For that you don't actually have to design some special format. The buildsystem should figure this out on its own. And there are such buildsystems that do that - Open Build Service. > It can change RPM macros in a build root (including SRPM build root). I think this is not really good idea, but again - you don't have to invent new format for this. Open Build Service allows you to do that in a project configuration. > It can use transient build dependencies (a package is built, only > used as a build > dependency of a consquitive package, and then dropped and never > shipped). Same here. > It can build and deliver a package against multiple exclusive > dependencies > (e.g. for different Fedora releases). The same thing. > It can build a package from dist-git sources that do not depend on a > Fedora > release. Again, same. > (Teoretically you can build a module from non-RPM components; I've > never tried > it.) > > -- 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 - -- Igor Raits <ignatenkobrain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEEcwgJ58gsbV5f5dMcEV1auJxcHh4FAl7wdP4ACgkQEV1auJxc Hh5iiBAAsdv3yWu6y+Un2LIGFcAomRmwijA3C3aajdNXDHWO3mco/MYDukjPVMIl FHO7xDg13ZCvxQ+AsKyVjJwRXI8ugyLatLBTO9sXLUw8LBtl36RfH/P2wXYCA6kM kB1aWYxxBlBLuZ2cJmyYJHfXEtOFDQHz1gORIX5HyXnL/asXOPwgeh+VjYGnNMPn FHSGCelFrW+aRU8E6vxxuqNrqFwZwXbv3ccHEJIihRMeFKoGFqfDRy/KMQFQ7zZm NagszNoFpfAhRLEqRYaHg3GR0Kl8DYlcJCNJrXmoBdlu/nlDy2soOOzs7PiiFtuN izdZeASITvpcBvR5h/wt52IZCAGP/G/YmSZE73LWteBZhiUBimuAzl1cAEQWfPBc /y8/mdMXaGAKtQcWZ8ZZNMXYqpyR2Ahrl13fK2XwFBcyi6/mnCsX27KAlczhdnlS siBzxyQW8PBvcbZdWF2XlR4W39RHH+EHdIHeeHdGauc+Oent6xObXVW9HIp/Vvkh VH87cdSBPGiJDmZMXBWs1QqViTHzxSlyX8PI3bFxFoYA+7ZwrER75hQnKNN22Or+ Bfl5i6EHtReatUW1uxtmVODON5hZ8fcxi8v6prjDAGTUMWHHkb6f7tcR1dH42/Sf 1OLXojU8gYMuuY/ooace7zto5ByfIJT0ViUFi0eV0qvG5w053D8= =iMXG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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
