Am Samstag, den 21.07.2007, 22:24 +0200 schrieb Nils Philippsen: > On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 16:07 +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote: > > Am Samstag, den 21.07.2007, 09:47 +0200 schrieb Till Maas: > > > On Saturday 21 July 2007 04:15:19 Christoph Wickert wrote: > > > > Imagine there are two projects: foo and foo+. foo+ is a fork, a > > > > different flavor of foo, but both offer the same functionality and are > > > > compatible for other apps that sit on top of foo(+). > > > > > > > > Now both projects want to be included in fedora. First of all, both > > > > packages need a Conflicts: foo conflicts foo+ and foo+ conflicts foo. > > > > > > Why do they need to conflict each other? > > > > Because their files are conflicting. They are installing to the same > > directories. > > They should use alternatives. This would require major changes to the codebase, because nearly _everything_ (libs, man pages etc) is conflicting. Also I'm not sure if any of the developers is willing to mke the required changes as foo+ is kind of foo's upstream. This is not a theoretical example, this is real live: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188542 especially comments #32,33, 35 and 38 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188542#c32 Chris -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
