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Fedora's Modularity feature explained |
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Stephen Gallagher posted a lengthy e-mail to the Fedora mailing lists in which he explored the topic of Modularity, a feature the Fedora team has been promoting for the past few releases which packages alternative versions of software. Gallagher explains the problem Modularity is trying to solve as follows: "This leads us to a classic problem that Linux distributions have faced: the 'Too Fast/Too Slow' problem. Linux distributions are traditionally quite monolithic. The package collections they ship are generally self-consistent, providing generally whatever the latest stable major release of the software at the time of the distribution release. As the release ages, it will receive bug fixes and enhancements, but usually will remain on the same major version.
This is excellent for the maintainers of the distribution, because it allows them to test that everything works together as a cohesive whole. It means that there’s one authoritative version to align to.
Users, on the other hand, are most concerned about solving their problem. It matters less to them that the distribution is cohesive and more that the tools they need are available to them.
The 'Too Fast/Too Slow' problem is basically this: users want a solid, stable, reliable, unchanging system. They want it to stay that way for the life of their application. However, they also want their application to run using the set of dependencies it was designed for. If that doesn't happen to be the same version (newer or older) as the one selected for the monolithic distribution, the user will now have to resort to alternative means to get up and running." Gallagher covers an overview of what Modularity is, along with some situations that Modularity is not designed to address.
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