File conflicts in Fedora Extras devel - 20070109

[Hans de Goede]

Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 13:39 +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
>> On Thursday, 17 May 2007 at 22:14, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>>> On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 21:06:22 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>>>
>>>> This is just a reminder.
>>>>
>>>> These are all non-explicit package conflicts found in FE development.
>>>> I've filed several tickets plus a few more for FE<=6 (check out the
>>>> FE7Target bug) long ago.
> 
>>> plib-devel - 1.8.4-8.fc6.i386
>>>   File conflict with: plib16-devel - 1.6.0-6.fc6.i386
>>>      /usr/include/plib/fnt.h
>>>      /usr/include/plib/js.h
>>>      /usr/include/plib/netBuffer.h
>>>      /usr/include/plib/netChannel.h
>>>      /usr/include/plib/netMessage.h
>>>      /usr/include/plib/netMonitor.h
>>>      /usr/include/plib/netSocket.h
>>>      /usr/include/plib/pu.h
>>>      /usr/include/plib/sg.h
>>>      /usr/include/plib/sl.h
>>>      /usr/include/plib/slPortability.h
>>>      /usr/include/plib/sm.h
>>>      /usr/include/plib/ssg.h
>>>      /usr/include/plib/ssgAux.h
>>>      /usr/include/plib/ssgKeyFlier.h
>>>      /usr/include/plib/ssgaWaveSystem.h
>>>      /usr/include/plib/ssgconf.h
>>>      /usr/include/plib/ul.h
>>>      /usr/include/plib/ulRTTI.h
>>>
>>> plib16-devel - 1.6.0-6.fc6.i386
>>>   File conflict with: plib-devel - 1.8.4-8.fc6.i386
>>>      /usr/include/plib/fnt.h
>>>      /usr/include/plib/js.h
>>>      /usr/include/plib/netBuffer.h
>>>      /usr/include/plib/netChannel.h
>>>      /usr/include/plib/netMessage.h
>>>      /usr/include/plib/netMonitor.h
>>>      /usr/include/plib/netSocket.h
>>>      /usr/include/plib/pu.h
>>>      /usr/include/plib/sg.h
>>>      /usr/include/plib/sl.h
>>>      /usr/include/plib/slPortability.h
>>>      /usr/include/plib/sm.h
>>>      /usr/include/plib/ssg.h
>>>      /usr/include/plib/ssgAux.h
>>>      /usr/include/plib/ssgKeyFlier.h
>>>      /usr/include/plib/ssgaWaveSystem.h
>>>      /usr/include/plib/ssgconf.h
>>>      /usr/include/plib/ul.h
>>>      /usr/include/plib/ulRTTI.h
>> plib16-devel should probably have an explicit conflict with plib-devel.
> A better approach would be to let one of the packages should install its
> headers into a different directory.
> 

Last time I talked about this with Matthias (the plib16 maintainer, I'm the 
plib maintainer), we came to the conclusion that there are no packages 
BuildRequiring plib16, and that it could be orphaned, so I guess that that is 
the real solution.

Matthias?

Regards,

Hans