Hi.
Horst von Brand <vonbrand@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > * I do not know if such a change can be made while retaining backwards
> > compatibility to older RPM versions (if this is desired, that is)
>
> You are proposing a scheme that doesn't touch the RPM format itself, so
> I don't see how this would enter here.
The information has to be stored somewhere on disk after all. I do not
know enough about how RPM splits the information into it's various databases
to decide where this new information would go (and if it would affect
older RPM versions)
> * What if a package exists with the same name in different repositories?
> Using one set of (coordinated) repositories prevents that today (and
> that is exactly the problem you are trying to solve...)
Yes, if there were no overlaps between repositories all of this would be
a non-issue.
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