On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 1:57 PM Miro Hrončok <mhron...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On 21. 08. 20 10:07, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > >> Josh listed some of the key reasons behind default streams: that > >> enterprise customers don't like to learn new commands. So default > >> streams allowed us to package content with shorter-than-RHEL-lifetime > >> and still `yum install foo` would install something the customer could > >> use. > > I guess that "shorter-than-RHEL-lifetime" is the big differentiator, i.e. > > normal rpms cannot be yanked from the distribution, but a module can be. > > Actually AFAIK modules shipped at GA cannot be yanked from the distribution > either. Certainly not in Fedora.
That is correct; the modules cannot be removed from the distribution, but the encapsulation of them in a separate delivery mechanism enables the support *policy* to be different. (In particular, it's acceptable from a technical perspective for customers of RHEL to keep using an EOL module if they cannot transition in time; they just have to accept the risks.) _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
