2006/8/17, Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> It's the same story: Parallel installation.
Indeed - and to be exact: safely upgradable parallel installation.
We have for example libpng-1.2.8 and libpng10-1.0.18 in FC5. Rpm would
allow installing them parallerly if they were just libpng-1.2.8 and
libpng-1.0.18 so why do we rename it? To allow them to be upgraded
separately, an alleged 'rpm -Uvh libpng-1.2.9' would remove both versions.
I haven't seen anybody arguing we should drop those compat packages and
rely on yum plugin to deal with situations like the above correctly... so
why are kernel modules any different?
- Panu -
Because they name it by hand, not by macros, thus is much more
reliable. I don't believe in robots either. And a proper name is an
artwork.
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