On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 00:51, Rick Thomas wrote: > This sounds like a good idea. It makes things easier for the > uninitiated to understand. > > I'd like to take this opportunity to revisit the issue I raised a > while ago in > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/2003-August/001777.html > > Basically the issue is that "obsoletes" can mean two things, and we > need a way to distinguish between them. > > Specifically "I obsolete him" can mean either of: > 1) If you install me, you must remove him. > 2) If you have him installed, then you must remove him and > install me instead. > > The are different, and result in different actions, so we need a > way to tell yum which version of "obsolete" we mean. obsoletes is an rpm concept - I didn't make it up. foo obsoletes bar that means: if you install foo then bar will be replaced. -sv
