On 2019-09-18, Kalev Lember <kalevlember(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hm, did perl get moved to the modular repo? That sounds like it is
going
to cause more issues than solve as it's not a leaf package. Why can't it
stay as a regular package?
Perl is still a regular package and until Fedora allows modules in
a build root I wan't even start thinking about removing non-modular
perl.
But I provide modulerized perl in addition to the non-modular one. And
there is indeed not much use of it if you don't want to sascrifice all
the other Perl packages. Though, this crypto-tools error showed me one
of the uses I did not realize before. I just found it interesting and
wanted to pointed it out.
I actually filed a feature request against DNF (bug #1753140) to report
the module stream. When modules proliferate Fedora more, the amount of
users who enabled a stream and cannot install a non-modular package will
surge. Giving them a chance to know what module reset back to default is
a handy.
-- Petr