On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 14:06:48 +0400, Peter wrote: > 2010/6/9 Chen Lei: > > > But in this case, the obsoletes seems excessive, since > > pidgin-evolution already depends on pidgin. If pidgin-evolution don't > > depend on pidgin, the obsoletes is a must, without it pidgin will be > > replaced by pidgin-evolution. > > If it pidgin-evolution was previously in main package, then this > obsoletes is required. W/o this requires users may suffer from missing > functionality after upgrade. > > Briefly: > > * We need to split off p.-e, from pidgin > * We need to install both of them while upgrading (Obsoletes in > pidgin-evo) in order not to loose functionality. > * We need to not erase main pidgin (Obsoletes in pidgin) I wonder who's spreading theories like that? It's not the first time this has come up in the past weeks. Most recently affected was nagios. You _cannot_ add _optional_ packages to a user's installation _without_ proper dependencies somewhere else. Attempts at trying to do that with Obsoletes are invasive and prone to getting it completely wrong. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
