Re: Proposed Modular Policy for Fedora ELN
On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 1:57 PM Miro Hrončok <mhroncok(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On 21. 08. 20 10:07, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
>> Josh listed some of the key reasons behind default streams: that
>> enterprise customers don't like to learn new commands. So default
>> streams allowed us to package content with shorter-than-RHEL-lifetime
>> and still `yum install foo` would install something the customer could
>> use.
> I guess that "shorter-than-RHEL-lifetime" is the big differentiator, i.e.
> normal rpms cannot be yanked from the distribution, but a module can be.
Actually AFAIK modules shipped at GA cannot be yanked from the distribution
either. Certainly not in Fedora.
That is correct; the modules cannot be removed from the distribution,
but the encapsulation of them in a separate delivery mechanism enables
the support *policy* to be different. (In particular, it's acceptable
from a technical perspective for customers of RHEL to keep using an
EOL module if they cannot transition in time; they just have to accept
the risks.)