On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 03:44:49 +0100 (CET), Dag Wieers <dag@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Similarly how would you decide if zelda or zork should be used. There's no > > logic to it. That's why the repotag is at the end, if it's up to the > > repotag to decide what to happen it's already a lost case anyway. > > Maybe you missed my point... i tend to be too subtle sometimes..... > i want rpm fixed to actually use vendor information so when updates > are calculated.. the vendor comes into the calculation in a different > way than release number. Until we actually FIX rpm to have a native > undestanding of package heritage from a vendor when doing an > upgrade...then yes... all of this nashing of teeth about multi-vendor > dynamics is a lost cause. I want rpm to be fixed to have a deep > understand that packages can come from different vendors and that > vendor-ness is essentially different than release-ness. Please do. I'm not sure how you would implement it or how it would work. But let me know when you've got a design or an implementation ready. I don't think it is necessarily part of RPM, but I'm open to suggestion and constructive work. -- dag wieers, dag@xxxxxxxxxx, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]