yum, and 2 packages that provide the same thing

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:45:02 -0500, Mike Cronenworth wrote:

> > Wasn't it the purpose of naming packages "foo-compat-version" so you 
> > could have mulitple versions installed? It seems very silly to have the 
> > version hardcoded with the package name. Just my lame opinion...
> > 
> > Mike
> > 
> 
> Sorry for the spam... I mean "compat-foo-version".

If you don't hardcode any version in the package name, multiple
different versions/releases would update eachother.

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