rpms/lesstif/devel lesstif.spec,1.4,1.5

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 19:01 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 13:43 +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 10:08:22PM -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> >>> Even though your Conflicts is correct (ie, not wrong), Michael's suggestion
> >>> of using (versinoed) Obsoletes in this case is, imo, a better option.
> 
> >> That's what I used. If Ralf doesn't raise any concern I'll keep the versionned 
> >> obsoletes. 
> 
> > Well, you know very well, that I consider your way of packaging lesstif
> > to be broken, because OpenMotif-devel and Lesstif-devel must be
> > installable in parallel. Any such Obsoletes breaks this.
> 
> Problem being, Ralf, Fedora has control over how lesstif is packaged but
>  doesn't have that for openmotif (anymore).  When/If we/Fedora had the
> ability to coordinate with openmotif packaging to make it
> parallel-installable, that situation could change, but until then...
The problem isn't openmotif's packaging, the problem is the way lesstif
is being packaged in Fedora.

Think about how you manage parallel installation of different versions
of kde/Qt. Any such Obsoletes: inside of the Fedora provided packages
would your 3rd party kde packages and would force you to use bizarre
packaging tricks, such as epoch tricks or playing games on package
names.

Ralf