On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 06:17:04PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > For a (theoretical) example, say I decide that the libGL/libGLU dependency > > isn't such a big deal, and so decide to merge the wxGTK-gl subpackage back > > into the main wxGTK package for FC6 and on. However, I don't want to force > > this onto the existing FC5 package, since I don't want to make surprising > > changes for people on running systems. To me, it makes sense at this point > > to fork the spec file and tag the older releases with their proper name. > Remember tagging is an hint, nothing more, you can rename rpms to whatever > you want, so relying on the dist to have packages installed on the "right" > version is dangerous. Okay. That doesn't seem relevant. > The only safe thing are R + BR in a context where people don't do > full-distro regular updates for badnwidth reasons or others. BR? BuildRequires? > Dist is a wonderful thing, but do not try to replace the dep resolver with > fuzzy dist matching. (it does not work terribly for that other os) Okay. Again, doesn't seem relevant to what I'm saying. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
