On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 11:08:14AM +0200, Igor Raits wrote: > -----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. > Igor, the question was about modularity. Not about Open Build Service. -- Petr
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