On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 9:13 AM Miro Hrončok <mhron...@redhat.com> wrote: > > Hello, as a Fedora user, who doesn't consume any modules, I'd like an easy way > to disable modular repos to save some traffic (both for myself and on the > mirrors). > > Disclaimer: I do not propose to change any defaults, just the delivery > mechanism. > > Currently, I can do it by editing all /etc/yum.repos.d/*-modular.repo and > changing: > > enabled=1 > > To: > > enabled=0 > > This has downsides: When the files are changed in next update, I won't get > them > updated, because they are shipped as %config(noreplace). (If they were not > shipped as %config(noreplace), it would be even worse, as my changes would be > overridden.) > > Side note: It would be great if DNF supported system-repos in /usr/share and > override options in /etc, but that is not (yet) the case. > > In order to not to have to resort to manually editing RPM-package shipped > configuration, I'd like to have a better way of disabling modular repos, > namely > via: sudo dnf remove fedora-repos-modular. > > > Can we please have modular repos in separate package again?
I think this is a great idea. Although I do use rpmconf after every update to resolve upstream merge conflicts with config files, I'd much prefer to avoid the need to edit the files. > > Basically revert this plus some extra comps/kickstarts changes: > > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/fedora-repos/c/7b32bee388d093c446017f1e33309d9b96b24e15 > > Constraint: modular repos are still installed and enabled by default (e.g. > when > we ship nonmodular repos in kickstarts/comps, we also ship modular). > > (Nonmodular repos package could possibly recommend modular repos package, > although I am not so happy about that, due to rhbz#1699672.) > > What do you think? > > -- > Miro Hrončok > -- > Phone: +420777974800 > IRC: mhroncok > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
