Alternatives to Modularity in Fedora
summary
Proposes using automated side-tags as mini buildroots (Koji/MBS-driven) to build and test multi-package stacks, plus auto-generated build orders from language metadata (Rust example already scripted) instead of full modules; suggests publishing alternate-version binaries as compact packages with virtual provides for discoverability and conflict handling, and removing manual changelog/version bumps so a single source can be rebuilt for many targets. Side-tags and some scripts already exist; remaining work is tooling and policy to scale.
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chapters (4)
- 0:00Start
- 3:00What is Modularity
- 6:29Modules in Fedora
- 46:16How to express dependencies between package groups?
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