Ville Skyttä wrote: > This thinking sounds even worse - it is not only about preservation cruft > in Provides, but it prepares things so that it is usual/expected and > easier to ship cruft as several versions of packages, and thus more or > less encourages > it. I thought we had guidelines how to do compat-* packages properly and > some guidelines about their life cycle but it appears I'm wrong or just > can't find it now :( It's just plain impossible to get all the dozens of packages which use a library like qt ported at the same time. Some changes (e.g. Qt 3 -> 4) will invariably take longer than others (e.g. Qt 2 -> 3), but there's just no way a migration like this can happen with no transition period, especially with the current size of the Fedora Package Collection. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list