On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 03:05:58AM -0700, John M. Harris Jr wrote:
I know what Modularity is, but why in the world was I given a module? I didn't specify that I wanted to install a module. I wanted a normal package. Is there
This was a request from RH product management for RHEL — they wanted users who are accustomed to just doing "yum install foo" to get "foo" even if behind the scenes the package is provided by a module.
Whether we need this behavior in Fedora is an open question, but it also could theoretically provide some benefits to Fedora packagers, so some people are using it.
a way to fix that, and get a regular package? Am I now stuck on this version of the module forever?
No; with the default modules like this, you shouldn't be pinned on a specific version. In fact, there should be no particular reason to care that this package happens to be provided by a module. That's the whole point of the default-streams idea.