Random module?

[John M. Harris Jr]

I installed `fish` with `dnf install fish`, but somehow I ended up getting a 
module? Anyone know what's going on there?

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John M. Harris, Jr.
Splentity

[Ed Greshko]

On 10/21/19 5:06 PM, John M. Harris Jr wrote:
>  I installed `fish` with `dnf install fish`, but somehow I ended up
> getting a
>  module? Anyone know what's going on there?
>  
Explained here https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/modularity/

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[John M. Harris Jr]

On Monday, October 21, 2019 2:20:37 AM MST Ed Greshko wrote:
>  On 10/21/19 5:06 PM, John M. Harris Jr wrote:
>  
>  > I installed `fish` with `dnf install fish`, but somehow I ended up getting
>  > a module? Anyone know what's going on there?
>  >
>  >
>  
>  
>  Explained here https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/modularity/ 
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 
a way to fix that, and get a regular package? Am I now stuck on this version 
of the module forever?

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John M. Harris, Jr.
Splentity

[Ed Greshko]

On 10/21/19 6:05 PM, John M. Harris Jr wrote:
>  On Monday, October 21, 2019 2:20:37 AM MST Ed Greshko wrote:
> > On 10/21/19 5:06 PM, John M. Harris Jr wrote:
> >
> >> I installed `fish` with `dnf install fish`, but somehow I ended up getting
> >> a module? Anyone know what's going on there?
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Explained here https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/modularity/
>  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
>  a way to fix that, and get a regular package? Am I now stuck on this version
>  of the module forever?
>  
If you desire the fish package from the standard fedora repos you should be able to do the
following

1.  dnf erase fish
2.  dnf module disable fish
3.  dnf install fish

I don't know the reason the packager decided to have fish be installed as a module by
default

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[Matthew Miller]

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.




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Matthew Miller
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