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

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 17:05:55 +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 07:33:40AM -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> > 
> > It *may* be ok, to 
> > Obsoletes: openmotif21
> > since it genuinely conflicts (same soname), see
> > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/215560
> 
> Maybe a Conflict would be better, with an explicit dependency on lesstif for 
> packages built against lesstif-devel. Otherwise one may end with lesstif 
> installed and packages built against openmotif21, although they are
> binary incompatible. What's your advice?

1.) You cannot link against openmotif21 since it doesn't provide the
necessary .so symlinks. It doesn't store its libraries in %_libdir either,
so the linker search path would be different, too.

2.) Are they really *binary* compatible?

3.) Conflicts during installation/upgrade is among the typical "WTF?"
scenarios. Avoid them like the plague.