File conflicts in Fedora Extras Development

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Wed Jul 12 17:36:28 UTC 2006


Nils Philippsen (nphilipp at redhat.com) said: 
> > Known, which is why this package already includes:
> > Conflicts: libc-client-devel
> > A smarter version of this script could probably omit bits already marked
> > with a Conflicts: tag.  (:
> 
> Somehow this strikes me as wrong... Either uw-imap-devel supersedes
> libc-client-devel or vice versa (then one should also obsolete the
> other) or they are independent things (in which case the file conflicts
> should be solved, e.g. by using separate base directories for the
> files).

Consdering they come from the same code base... why would you use one
and not the other?

Bill




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