On Thu, 2019-10-17 at 08:08 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
One of the (often un- or misinformed) major arguments people keep
using against Modularity is "it makes packaging harder!".
One thing I've found to be a problem with modularity is that it's easy
to be un- or misinformed. I spent a lot of time reading the docs (and
I'm glad there are docs, I'm not criticizing the docs) and I still
found it difficult to modularize my rpick package.
My experiences as a packager for the other distributions I've worked
with that offer parallel installability (which necessarily means
parallel availability) was that I didn't need to know very much to do
it. It was generally obvious what to do to make my package use slots,
for example.
I think the problem is that modularity is complicated enough that it's
hard to know it well without investment.
Could we think of a solution that is simple so that packagers can more
easily understand how it works? Or better, can we employ a solution
that another distribution has developed?