Stephen Gallagher wrote:
I really feel like we are approaching the finish line and shouldn’t
give
up just yet!
Unfortunately, the feeling that I get is that what looks like a finish line
to you is actually the edge of a deep cliff. ;-)
To explain my metaphore: I think the biggest trouble and chaos has yet to
come and is unavoidable with the way Modularity works, unless we put some
very strong policy restrictions on it (which you are not going to like).
E.g., I fear that desktop Fedora may end up splittered into a KDE/Plasma
module, a GNOME module, an Xfce module, etc. all shipping different versions
of some shared (
freedesktop.org etc.) libraries, and that all desktop
applications would end up depending on one of those modules and no longer
being installable for users of any other desktop.
Kevin Kofler