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List:       opensuse-packaging
Subject:    Re: [opensuse-packaging] Shared Library Packaging Policy for alternate
From:       Michael Matz <matz () suse ! de>
Date:       2008-06-06 13:59:18
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.64.0806061556350.9055 () wotan ! suse ! de
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Hi,

On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Michael Schroeder wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 04:29:33PM +0200, Michael Matz wrote:
> > On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > with openal-soft. rpm didn't like packages that provide and conflict the 
> > > same thing last time I checked though.
> > 
> > Yeah, that's still the case.  And probably won't ever change according to 
> > the rpm author.  That was also the problem with the theming packages.  
> 
> Hmm, I'm nur sure what you mean here. Sure, conflicts work with 
> provides, but I'm not aware of any discussion about that. What was 
> discussed was weather obsoletes should work with provides, currently 
> they don't (rpm-4 upstream style), in rpm-5 they do.

No, I mean the problems the theming packages have.  You can install only 
one of a set, that set is unknown, and the set members don't know about 
each other.  To express this it would be ideal if all of them provide X 
and also conflict with X, but that isn't allowed by rpm.


Ciao,
Michael.
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