On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 05:22:33PM -0500, Honza Horak wrote: > > Upstream chose the way of drop-in replacement, which means that the same > API including file names was actually a feature. Why we don't do it > differently in Fedora is obvious -- we don't want to differ from upstream. > Actually..... this is not "obvious". If two packages conflict, it's not a given that we will include both in Fedora and just let them conflict. Many times we require that one or both packages be patched so that they do not conflict. This can cause significant deviation from upstream if upstream is unwilling to rename. In this case, I think that we fall into the following guideline: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Conflicts#Incompatible_Binary_Files_with_Conflicting_Naming_.28and_stubborn_upstreams.29 "as long as there are no clear cases for both packages to be installed simultaneously, explicit Conflicts are permitted at the packager's discretion." So this is allowed, but many other cases of Conflicts (for instance, the recent discussion of Apache OpenOffice vs Libreoffice) would not. -Toshio
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