On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 04:38:04PM +0200, Mikolaj Izdebski wrote:
> > >
> > > In modular Fedora that's (effectively) not true. Packages that only exist
> > > for the sake of building other packages (i.e. build-only dependencies) 
> > > can be
> > > retained in the Fedora build system and never left it. That means those
> > > packages are never made available to Fedora users and thus a service 
> > > level for
> > > them is significantly lower. E.g. no security fixes, not bug fixes, no
> > > integration, not tests, no API/ABI stability. The only requirement is that
> > > they can be built and used for building other packages.
> >
> >
> >   So, if user wants to locally rebuild the package, they won't be able to
> > do it? Because BuildRequired packages won't be available?
> 
> Modules can be built locally with "fedpkg module-build-local", which
> downloads required dependencies from Koji and installs them in mock
> chroot. These packages are not installed directly (outsides of chroot)
> on users systems.

  OK, cool, thanks for dispeling my doubts.

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