Should perl-devel Obsolete perl?

[Rafael Garcia-Suarez]

On 06/03/07, Robin Norwood <rnorwood at redhat.com> wrote:
> > IMO, perl-devel >= *-14 therefore should
> > Obsoletes: perl < 4:5.8.8-14
> > to guarantee an update/upgrade without functional regressions.
> >
> > Unfortunately: Such a change has dramatic effects on yum: It causes yum
> > to iterate through all perl(...) deps.
>
> This doesn't seem right to me anyway.  perl-devel doesn't obsolete older
> versions of perl since it doesn't replace their functionality.
> perl+perl-devel does 'obsolete' older versions of perl, but rpm can't
> really express that.

Say that the new perl-devel Conflicts with perl < 4:5.8.8-14 ?