On Wed, Feb 11, 2026, at 1:39 PM, Łukasz Posadowski wrote: > On 2026-02-06 at 16:51 +0100, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: > > After making another 10 years old package build on RISC-V 64-bit port > > I > > started to wonder: > > > > Will there be some kind of 'does anyone uses it still' check in > > Fedora? > > > > RHEL has optional repo called "codeready" with developer tools and most > of the devel packages, but I think it is more delegated to the "extras" > role. If Fedora packages would move to "extras/legacy/dontcare" > repository, it would be possible to count mirrorlist metalink requests, > some of them from IP's unique enough to count them as users.
I don't think that would work. dnf will request information from every repo it knows about to make sure it is up to date. This is because packages might have moved repositories or the user may have enabled repo X because it migth have newer versions of a package they wanted. The only way it would work is if every 'package' set was broken into its own repository.. but cross dependencies come into play here quickly. Package B only builds if you have repo A, B , Z enabled but breaks if you have R enabled however you need R when running. You have to have a way to communicate that those repos were needed, in what order and when. [And you may find in doing all that you have either reinvented modularity or containers... or both.] > -- > Łukasz Posadowski > > -- > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > 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/[email protected] > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new > -- Stephen J Smoogen. Let us be kind to one another, for most of us are fighting a hard battle. -- Ian MacClaren
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