[Guidelines Change] Conflicts

Michael Wiktowy michael.wiktowy at gmail.com
Wed May 9 17:54:25 UTC 2007


On 5/9/07, Tom spot Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 11:01 -0400, Michael Wiktowy wrote:
>
> > Just seeking some clarity why not doing the right thing is the right
> > thing to do.
>
> It was the attempt to say "Keeping Conflicts for old packages that don't
> exist anymore, and are not really plausible to come up in an upgrade
> scenario isn't necessary."
>
> Conflicts are one more thing that yum has to parse when performing
> package installs/upgrades, and anywhere we can make yum's job easier, I
> wholeheartedly endorse. :)

OK ... that makes a lot of sense ... but that isn't what you wrote in
the guidelines :]
Thanks for clarifying.

/Mike




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