On 04/06/2017 06:20 AM, Igor Gnatenko wrote: > On Thu, 2017-04-06 at 14:07 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: >> On 04/06/2017 02:00 PM, Igor Gnatenko wrote: >>> On Thu, 2017-04-06 at 12:40 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >>>> What's not explained is why, except that it "causes issues with >>>> the >>>> package updates process". It seems as if the or-rule above would >>>> be >>>> simple enough, so what's the exact problem? >>> None (or almost none) of rel-eng (and probably some other critical >>> tools) are not supporting them. For example, "mash" uses yum which >>> just > >> Isn't mash dead? > Some people tell me it is, some other says no. And after some time, > someone starts porting it to DNF. So it is hard to say. > > Anyhow, it *is* used right now. Depends on what you mean by 'dead'. It is currently used for all updates pushes, so it's very much alive right now. However, there are various plans to either fix it to use dnf or replace it entirely. ...snip... > Speaking on behalf of Rust SIG, it is important to support rich > dependencies for "version range" support, but I can't do much without > support from rel-eng. Support for these is coming... just not at the drop of a hat. kevin
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