On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Tomas Mraz <tmraz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I can imagine only one reason for this desire - so that the user can do> Here is a long list of technical reasons why your desire to have all
> the parallel installable versions of "foo" called "foo" is not going to
> work.
just "yum install foo" when he just wants the latest version of "foo".
That is a reasonably valid desire (well, "the preferred version", not necessarily "the latest version"), and we can already handle it well today - look at the "python" package that is actually Python 2.x, and look how it Provides: python2.
Sadly https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines#Multiple_packages_with_the_same_base_name doesn't currently require this behavior - Vít tried to have the guideline amended and FPC refused (I haven't read the detailed rationale so I won't comment on it further).
However, note that this has _nothing_ to do with parallel installable versions: We want (yum install foo) to install a specific version of foo, not all versions of foo.
Mirek
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