On Saturday 30 October 2004 11:06, Stuart Jansen wrote: > On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 11:40 +0100, Paul Nasrat wrote: > > rpm --fileconflicts > > So we've got a reply from an @redhat.com that says how to avoid the > behavior. But we haven't heard what the reason for the change was. > There's been some times on my x86_64 when such an approach might have > been nice, but otherwise I just don't understand it. I agree - maybe an explanation would help us understand this but so far it sounds insane. I have to maintain a environment for 400 developers that all require root (through sudo) for their work... Unfotunately that means that they sometimes go ahead and install their own packages - I can bet you, the day after this change goes in, the number of systems broken by installing incompatible or bad packages will go from 1 or two a week to dozens... The only thing that saves us right now is file conflicts... Peter.
