| Tangential but this is misunderstood widely, so I cannot resist the urge to explain. First of all, modules can not be installed in parallel [1]. Secondly, it is not a new technological development at all. Modules in essence are just a fancy version of maintaining multiple overlay repositories on top of your base distribution. Only difference is it adds a more streamlined usage to dnf. You could do the same thing 15 years ago with yum or apt by manually enabling/disabling repositories. This is the easy part. Real hard work that goes to modules is actually creating and maintaining those separate modules having separate versions of the same software stack. And that is the thing none of the distributions were willing to do until recently. Heck, maintaining multiple versions of the same library or the same program in a distribution release was a taboo. Distribution developers dreaded the idea of doing that and avoided it as possible as they can. Jury is still out on how well it'll work in practice and how much useful it'll be (in that will maintainers be actually eager to do the hard work of maintaining multiple stacks in parallel, how long will they support each version or how many versions will they maintain in parallel etc.) I have the best wishes Fedora developers with the modules idea and I hope it'll prove to be successful thus maybe other distributions would be more open to the idea in the future. [1] > Modularity brings parallel availability, not parallel installability. Only one stream of a given module can be enabled on a system
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/modularity/architecture... |