On Saturday, December 7, 2019, Adam Williamson <adamwill@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Fri, 2019-12-06 at 18:51 -0600, Richard Shaw wrote:
> After reading this thread I think this is a more serious problem than just
> this package. I had "assumed" modules were just normal, so I didn't
> question them being installed.
They are normal. You're not wrong. The problem is well understood at
this point: a module was given a stream default - meaning it becomes
the default source of packages it contains.
That module includes
protobuf, meaning it takes over from the non-modular repo as the
default source of protobuf.
This should not be possible, a module should not randomly overwrite normal package, that basically means all the work done on the package (maintenance, testing) is just worthless because some random module has the same package.
We should really reconsider the whole "default module" concept - it is inherently incompatible with the rest of the distribution. We can keep adding hacks every time it breaks but that doesn't scale. The negatives far outweighs the gains.