Can i Obsoletes core packages from extras package?

[Josh Boyer]

On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 13:08 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 12:50 +0530, Parag N(पराग़) wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>   I am planning to add Gutenprint package to Fedora-extras. Gutenprint
> >> was formerly called Gimp-Print. So once this package is in
> >> Fedora-extras it needs first to remove following packages
> >> gimp-print
> >> gimp-print-cups
> >> gimp-print-devel
> >> gimp-print-plugin
> >> gimp-print-utils
> >>  But is it allowed to do that?
> >> I have opened a review request for this package. You can check it at
> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=199108
> >>
> > 
> > No. Absolutely not.
> > 
> > Extras packages are not allowed to obsolete or explicitly conflict with
> > core.
> 
> I was pretty sure this was the case, but I can't seem to find it 
> documented anywhere in the packaging guidelines. Did I miss somewhere?

I can't find it anywhere either.  I'm pretty sure that was an explicit
thing mentioned in the past.  Perhaps when Core adopted Extras packaging
guidelines that part got removed.

It should be added somewhere again.

josh