On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 3:54 PM Kevin Kofler <kevin.kof...@chello.at> wrote:
> Christopher Engelhard wrote: > > Personally, I like a solution along the lines of what e.g. Kevin Kofler > > suggested earlier, that is > > > > 1) every package has a default version > > 2) any default version can only depend on default versions > > 3) the package manager distinguishes between 'install default, which > > happens to be version X' and 'install version X, which happens to be > > default', with automatic upgrade of 'X -> X' and 'default -> default' > > being OK and 'X -> default' or 'default -> X' requiring user intervention > > 4) where (2) cannot be achieved, we use compat packages as before > > > > though I freely admit that I absolutely cannot judge how difficult that > > is to actually implement. > > The easiest way to implement this is actually to simply make the default > versions non-modular again and ship only alternate versions as modules > (i.e., Miro's proposal). I am currently working up a report on what exactly that will entail. I hope to have it ready to share tomorrow. > > Kevin Kofler > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > 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@lists.fedoraproject.org >
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