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From: "Kevin Kofler" kevin.kofler@chello.at To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Sunday, June 9, 2019 12:20:34 AM Subject: Re: RFC: Multiple parallel side tags
Nicolas Mailhot via devel wrote:
But, what is different here from the Fedora circles / Fedora modules / etc endeavours? Isn’t the root problem synchronizing common code paths, because free software means pervasive code reuse, apps ends up being deployed together, and un-sharing generates collisions / API incompatibilities / behaviour incompatibilities / config file incompatibilities / un-adressed security issues?
What makes it possible in modules but not in side tags?
Modules are just as broken.
We really need to go back to just doing all the work directly in the one and only Rawhide, no modules, side tags, or other such "features" that are just conflicts waiting to happen. Yes, this means Rawhide will go back to being broken for people trying to actually use it while a transition is ongoing, but the point of Rawhide is to do development in it, NOT to be used. It should be fully expected that Rawhide does NOT work as an actual distro, ever. Its one and only purpose should be to coordinate the package development so it all happens in one place.
But even for package development and integration you need something that works at least a bit. If you won't get a compose for a few weeks due to the constant breakage you won't get much work done on landing your latest library rebase or integrating a new package.
Not to mention trying to debug the breakage when nothing really works and more stuff is constantly landing. I thin there needs to be *some* sort of balance.
Kevin Kofler
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