On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 10:32:51AM +0200, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: > On 11.09.2020 18:42, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > I'm not enthusiastic about build-time-only packages, but if the choice > > is between that and retiring the packages (or hiding them in modules > > which has the same effect), I'll take it. > > This will be Modularity 2.0. All packages must be installable if the end > user wants to do so.
The packages *would* be trivially installable. I didn't say that explicitly, but you would always be able to install a package that has "Provides:fedora-build-time-only" and then install any such packages on any system. (That is how they would installed in mock or koji too.) > Check header-only C++ libraries packaging. They provide only the -devel > and virtual -static subpackages and can be easily installed in Koji/mock > or directly. > > Also check Rust packaging. They build crates to a separate packages and > use them only for the static linkage. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ 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
