We could simply stop doing projects that throw wildly different versions of software into a single installation, which causes this issue.

On October 8, 2019 6:23:47 PM UTC, Matthew Miller <mattdm@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Tue, Oct 08, 2019 at 02:09:24PM -0400, Przemek Klosowski via devel wrote:
Having said that, I am not sure it will solve the problem with
ecosystems requiring specific collection of component versions (*):
what is the expected  number of required versions for each module in
those environments? If it is much more than 2 then fast/slow scheme
might not work.

Yeah, I don't think modularity solves this well at the individual component
version explosion of doom. Ideally, we'd get developers to not do that, but
... we've tried that for 25 years with less and less success over time.

I mean, really, nothing we're doing really solves this.

So... I think the solution there is really: automated bundling,
automated detection of that bundling, and where possible, automated
patching. But that's _another_ major project.


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