Thank you, unknown genius!

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Anton Solovyev wrote:
> Todd Denniston wrote:
> 
>> Actually an unfortunate thing is that if you do go through and select 
>> EVERYTHING by hand and install it, I know from experience, you will 
>> get conflicting packages[1] installed and the rpm's are not setup to 
>> indicate conflicts.
>> specifically I know about:
>> A) rsyslog & syslog-ng
>> B) ccid|ifd-egate & ctapi-cyberjack-pcsc
>>
>> It would be useful to have an "Everything that does not conflict" 
>> button though.
>>
>> [1] conflicting in as much as, you get nothing in /var/log/messages 
>> with both syslog packages, and the ifd-cyberjack.bundle from 
>> ctapi-cyberjack-pcsc causes pcscd to peg at 100% CPU and fail to do 
>> ANYthing useful, if a reader for any of the other bundles is plugged in.
> 
> Well, that's not unexpected. I am guessing the whole point of the change 
> was to make it possible to stick in any number of possibly incompatible 
> packages and not have to answer for an unusable install. All that under 
> excuse of "security".
> 
I think it has more to do with having a choice of different packages 
that do the same job. After all, some people like Sendmail, some 
like Postfix, and some like other MTAs. There are other packages 
that ofter the same kind of choices. (Hint - look at alternatives 
for a few examples.)

Mikkel
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