On Fri, Dec 24, 2021 at 11:49 AM Tom Stellard <tstellar@redhat.com> wrote:

On 12/13/21 08:56, Ben Cotton wrote:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/GHC_parallel_version_installs
>
> == Summary ==
> Introduce ghcX.Y packages to Fedora which can be parallel installed,
> in addition to the main ghc package.
:

> == Detailed Description ==
> Currently ghc modules are available in Fedora but they cannot be
> installed in parallel.

What is the plan for the ghc modules?

It's a good question: I kind of avoided going into detail on this point in the Change,

since I was not intending to remove/drop the modules just yet.

In the meantime I have added an optional ghcX.Y-compiler-default subpackage

which allows making ghcX.Y the default ghc too though, so with that

the modules no longer seem to provide any advantage.

If there are no strong objections I think I will probably drop the modules before F37 anyway.

But I didn't really want to frame this Change as "demodularization", but I will concede that

maintaining the modules has been more stressful than I would like to admit.

Most likely I will also switch EPEL to using ghcX.Y instead of modules.

Jens