On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 4:09 AM Tom Hughes tom@compton.nu wrote:
On 13/02/2019 08:05, Neal Gompa wrote:
On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 2:58 AM Ron Yorston rmy@frippery.org wrote:
What is a "module-only" package?
These are packages that move from the main Fedora distribution into the addon "fedora-modular" repo that is enabled by default on Fedora systems.
There are a couple of consequences of this:
- They are no longer available for regular packages to use as build dependencies
- Only DNF (the CLI tool) can manage them. PackageKit and dnfdragora
can't do anything with them yet.
I don't think that second consequence is entirely true.
As I understand the the default module stream remains available in the main repo and hence would be installable with things that don't understand modules. There would be no ability to switch to an alternate stream with other tools though.
That's not true. If the modulemd isn't processed, all the RPMs are evaluated and the repo looks like a completely conflicting pile of nonsense. This is what makes PackageKit and dnfdragora scream. Though they don't crash on it anymore, which is a good thing. :)