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.
It can change RPM macros in a build root (including SRPM build root).
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).
It can build and deliver a package against multiple exclusive dependencies
(e.g. for different Fedora releases).
It can build a package from dist-git sources that do not depend on a Fedora
release.
(Teoretically you can build a module from non-RPM components; I've never tried
it.)

-- Petr

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