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.