On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 07:09:49PM +0200, Peter Boy wrote:
I suppose I would belong to the latter. From a Server admin’s POV the modules are a great chance to keep some backwards compatibility with our fast pacing distro. The most prominent example is PostgreSQL. It is not so rare that the new major version requires an adjustment in the application programme or at least an extensive test. And every major update also requires a migration of the entire data stock. Modularisation is a welcome opportunity to quickly switch to a new release and use new capabilities, but to carry out the adaptation / tests with PostgreSQL at your leisure.
There's a proposal to provide parallel postgresql versions via plain old normal traditional boring packages: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/postgresql/pull-request/59
Zbyszek