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Jeremy Katz
katzj at redhat.com
Mon Aug 20 21:28:07 UTC 2007
On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 16:53 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:45:59 -0400
> Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > > Dumb and untried question: what happens if compiz-gnome obsoletes
> > > > "compiz <= oldversion" and requires "compiz" (where oldversion is
> > > > less than the current distribution version)?
> > >
> > > Don't think that would do what you want it to do,
> >
> > It _should_ unless I've gone completely batty today (note: entirely
> > possible ;-)
>
> Erm, lets walk through this because maybe /I/ have gone batty.
>
> compiz-gnome obsoletes compiz that you have installed, but doesn't
> Provide it. compiz itself provides compiz. How does that get
> compiz-gnome installed? And if it did, wouldn't you want to do the
> same thing for compiz-kde for the KDE users?
The key part is the obsoletes compiz < %{oldversionthatwasn'tsplit}. So
compiz-gnome gets pulled in to replace the old compiz. It then requires
new compiz, and things are happy.
And there wasn't previously the compiz-kde bits based on a quick look at
what I currently have installed (haven't updated yet today)
Jeremy
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