On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:19, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. I implemented it based on recommendations on the yum wiki that I saw someone else referred to in #fedora-devel : http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/YumPackageUpdates#Packagesplit > 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. I thought that a reference from yum was a reasonably safe bet to be a good thing to follow. Regards, Stu. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
