Re: File conflicts in Fedora Extras Development

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Bill Nottingham wrote:

> Nils Philippsen (nphilipp@xxxxxxxxxx) said:
>> > Known, which is why this package already includes:
>> > Conflicts: libc-client-devel
>> > A smarter version of this script could probably omit bits already
>> > marked
>> > with a Conflicts: tag.  (:
>> 
>> Somehow this strikes me as wrong... Either uw-imap-devel supersedes
>> libc-client-devel or vice versa (then one should also obsolete the
>> other) or they are independent things (in which case the file conflicts
>> should be solved, e.g. by using separate base directories for the
>> files).
> 
> Consdering they come from the same code base... why would you use one
> and not the other?

Before fc6, the version uw-imap provided was newer than that of Core.  As of
fc6, they are the same.  I had once asked the Core libc-client maintainer
what to do about that,
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/179017#c1
but they didn't respond.  I didn't follow up on it.

-- Rex

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