switching from man to man-db

Ivana Hutarova Varekova varekova at redhat.com
Thu Feb 25 06:54:40 UTC 2010


On 02/25/2010 05:13 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>    
>> This would of course need to be a new package that would either not
>> conflict with or simply obsolete/replace the existing man-db package,
>> right?
>>      
> I'd say Obsoletes/Provides is the best solution.
>
>          Kevin Kofler
>
>    
Yes I agree, the idea is to add obsolete/provides. Man-db have the a lot 
of functionality which is the same with man, so theer are a lot of 
conflicts and if the package will replace man, the it has no sense to 
rename or remove conflicting files from man-db.
Ivana Hutarova Varekova


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