On 29. 3. 2013 at 13:22:40, Petr Pisar wrote: > On 2013-03-29, Jan Zelený <jzeleny@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > In this case we proposed another solution which was turned down (I'm not > > sure exactly why): > > > > Each package requiring multiversion support would have all these > > versions almost the same as they are right now. The only difference > > would be that there is a metapackage pointing at all time to the > > latest version. > > Because metapackages are considered evil in Fedora (I'm not sure exactly > why). To be perfectly honest I don't know either. But I already have half a dozen use cases on my table where metapackages can help. Perhaps it's time to re- consider this policy? Thanks Jan -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
