Once upon a time, Stephen John Smoogen smooge@gmail.com said:
On Sun, 14 Nov 2021 at 17:48, Chris Adams linux@cmadams.net wrote:
I started looking at 9-stream a bit... and I notice there are no package modules. All the things that were modules in 8/8-stream appear to have been folded back into the base OS, with no variants included (like different versions of MariaDB and php for example). Is this expected to be the way forward, or are modules just still to be filled out?
Modules will probably occur later in time. Made up example follows which bears no resemblance to reality: Perl-5.400 comes out and it is a good candidate for use, then it will be added as a module which would replace regular packages. Same with PHP, IDM and other 'fast-but-useful' tool-sets.
Okay, thanks to you and to Josh Boyer for the info. This appears to be a little different from CentOS 8 (and Fedora), where such things are always modules, so I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything.