Confusion with openal-soft

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 22:39:37 +0900, Mamoru wrote:

> Michael Schwendt wrote, at 08/16/2009 09:29 PM +9:00:
> > On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 14:04:14 +0200, LinuxDonald wrote:
> > 
> >> I have updated the packages for F-10 and F-11 with conflicts and without 
> >> obseltues :)
> > 
> > Explicit Conflicts need the approval of the Fedora Packaging Committee.
> > 
> 
> This occurs only on F-10/11 and not on rawhide.
> Please see the discussion on bug 515109 for details.

First it is pointed out that parallel installable packages would be
preferred, then there is a jump to making them conflict. Why?
 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Conflicts