On Tuesday 20 June 2006 11:11, Rex Dieter wrote: > Hugo Cisneiros wrote: > > On Tuesday 20 June 2006 10:33, Rex Dieter wrote: > >>Jonathan Underwood wrote: > >>>OK - I'd missed that subtelty, sorry. I suppose that's the best (most > >>>consistent) situation that can be hoped for. > >> > >>Or, follow what koffice in Extras did, and use a meta-package named > >>koffice-suite. A nice advantage of this approach is that since the old > >>name is no longer being used, we have the opportunity to drop all those > >>darn Epoch's from kde packaging. > > > > And break with upstream package name, package name that the current users > > are already accustomed, and kdebase and kdelibs should not be > > sub-packaged, so they will still have these nasty Epochs. I see no > > advantages here. > > Not if you properly Provides/Obsoletes the old name. Obviously, the > subpackaging idea doesn't extend to *all* kde packages, only for the > ones for which it makes sense. Oh, you're completely right... With this I changed my mind: now IMO it's better to do this. Some naming suggestions? - kdegames-all - kdegames-meta (yummy (*)) - kdegames-suite - kdegames-group - kdegames-suite (*) - This also resolves the problem when removing a sub-package, the "meta" word will tell the user that there's no big problem removing the packaging (it will not remove its main subpackages). > > BTW, I had difficulties into installing koffice because of this reason: a > > simply yum install koffice didn't work. Then I installed one for one > > until I found out koffice-suite exists (dumb me!) :) > > I consider that a bug/shortcoming of yum. koffice-suite properly > Provides/Obsoletes "koffice", but 'yum install' doesn't grok "Provides", > only real pkgs. ): Hummm, this is really annoying... If this is really a yum bug, we would get a lot of trouble. I asked Seth's adivce on IRC somedays ago and he said that yum recognizes Provides well. Is this fixed in current development yum versions? (aka 2.9.0) Anyway, I have a rawhide test system here, I'll test this and inform the list. later. > > -- rex -- []'s Eitch http://www.devin.com.br/eitch/ "Talk is cheap. Show me the code." - Linus Torvalds -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
