On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 1:27 PM Neal Gompa <ngompa13@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 12:32 AM Jens-Ulrik Petersen <petersen@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> I have been thinking about proposing a Change to Fedora 39,
> which would disable yum modular repos by default in installs.
> I thought I would float the idea here first.
>
> I suspect the vast majority of Fedora users don't use
> the modular repos, so I don't see the point of enabling
> them by default anymore. Does this make sense?
>
> I know dnf5 is coming with performance improvements
> but I still think turning off the modular repos would speed up dnf
> and save users a lot of time.
>

I'm okay with this. The only case I had for using modular repos was
Nodejs, but that is demodularizing now.

>
> ps I think it would be a good idea to disable the cisco-h264 repo too by default in the fedora container image, and maybe also for headless Fedora editions.

Please don't do this, as ffmpeg will pull the codec in if available,
and there are tons of headless use-cases for ffmpeg that make the
availability of this codec useful. It's also a really tiny repository
anyway...

I'd like to second to what Neal said. I think it makes sense to disable the modular repos by default, but I'd rather keep the cisco openh264 repo enabled.

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Kalev