Could you please reply only to the list instead of sending a copy via Cc? On Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:33:57 -0300, Horst wrote: > > > This will even help Fedora, as the reason Debian/Mandriva introduced > > > them was for being able to cope with tons of packages when a > > > dependency does an sobump. > > > Without a doubt. If done properly, it would fix the poor broken deps > > caused by sudden/unexpected soname bumps. > > No, it doesn't. It just forces carrying outdated junk around forever, It doesn't do that. It's similar to our compat-* packages. Once all dependencies build'n'work fine with the latest library, the old parallel installable releases can be obsoleted (= removed). On the contrary, an ABI/API-incompatible library upgrade in the middle of a stable Fedora release forces packagers (and upstream maintainers) to spend extra time on [often unnecessary] maintenance tasks just to move closer to the bleeding edge. > stuff > that needs the same care as new packages (and tending for old code is more > work, and unexciting work at that). Better do a clean cut with the past; This can be done prior to the next release of Fedora. This is what Rawhide is for. > if > some dependencies can't be updated for now, so be it. yum is currently able > to handle this scenario just fine. So? Here, by default, it runs into a fatal error condition and throws an error message, which confuses many (many!) users. And --skip-broken (even if enabled by default) is no cure either. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
