Aggregation upstream projects are BAD (kdesdk for example)

[Hans de Goede]

seth vidal wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 15:12 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> A college of mine wanted to use umbrello in our Universities labs, since the
>> Linux install there are Fedora he asked me about umbrello for Fedora.
>>
>> Since I could NOT find it, I packaged it, see:
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=283471
>>
>> But then I got a comment to the review it was already in Fedora in kdesdk. But 
>> then why on earth doesn't kdesdk have a Provides umbrello so that yum install
>> umbrello works? Or even better an umbrello sub-package?
>>
> 
> File a bug with the maintainer of kdesdk and ask them add provides for
> each of the programs that it includes.
> 
> Do it for all of the items you think is important. I think that's a fair
> thing to do.
> 

I forgot to say in my mail I already did that, see:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=283521

But that still doesn't solve the version interlocking of completely unrelated 
packages.

Regards,

Hans