Summary of the 2008-04-08 Packaging Committee meeting

[Bill Crawford]

2008/5/13 Jason Corley <jason.corley at gmail.com>:

>  The portion of that agreement that you are glossing over nicely was
>  that the solution needed to be in rpm, not yum, apt, smart, up2date,
>  or anywhere else.  Plain and simple a yum plugin has zero to do with
>  the exception and conditions as understood on the JPackage side.

... changing from a tag in the package version, to a "group" tag,
means that you can query it and if you like, decide to not install it.
Trying to insist that "rpm" should handle it is ... disingenuous,
since rpm will do what it's told, and if you don't tell it to install
such a package, it won't.