On Jan 25, 2005, Jeff Johnson <n3npq@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> On Jan 24, 2005, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> It is the packager's decision whether he will craft a package that >>> will allow concurrent non-conflicting installs of the same package >>> in different versions. This is currently (only) true for the kernel >>> packages, but could easily be extended to gcc and python packages. >> And why couldn't the depsolver itself verify that conflicts do not >> exist between the installed version and the to-be-installed one? I >> think it's my turn to show that we don't need additional annotations >> :-) > Additional annotations for what? What problem are you trying to solve? To indicate whether multiple versions of the same package can coexist peacefully. > FWIW, "missingok" generalizes to all dependencies, not just Requires:, > and in an equivalently semantic free (from rpmlib POV) fashion. That's a different thread (or maybe a different portion of the same thread :-) -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
