On 31 May 2018 at 09:13, Stephen Gallagher <sgall...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 9:07 AM Till Maas <opensou...@till.name> wrote: >> >> On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 08:53:25AM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: >> >> > Are these packages parallel-installable (and do they need to be?) It >> > seems >> >> Yes and yes, otherwise one could not synchronise between older and newer >> Fedoras. >> > > If they needed to sync between older systems, couldn't the newer ones just > all standardize on the oldest, most-compatible one? > >> >> > to me like this would be a FAR better solution as a module. You just >> > have >> > branches for the major/minor releases and then ship module streams for >> > each >> > one. They can be built and updated independently (rather than rebuilding >> > all of them each time any of them releases an update). >> >> Why is a module here better than parallel installable RPMs? >> > > Package maintenance would be simpler, there would be less updates churn > compared to having all of the streams in a single SRPM, the UI for > installing the right version would be easier on the end-user... > > I'd really like to hear how often in the real world that users actually > install more than one version of unison on the same system. It doesn't seem > like the sort of thing people would do very often, since maintenance would > be difficult. >
The university people I have dealt with have multiple versions installed because the upstreams they need stuff from are all using different versions. I don't think modules makes a good case here because these things have 'infinite' lifetimes so will be kept up for 'ever' and the users are usually needing multiple versions. -- Stephen J Smoogen. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A65FZTAS6UIBRTRQNP3DAJE7M6XMUF7S/
