On 29. 3. 2013 at 13:22:40, Petr Pisar wrote:
On 2013-03-29, Jan Zelený jzeleny@redhat.com wrote:
In this case we proposed another solution which was turned down (I'm not sure exactly why):
Each package requiring multiversion support would have all these versions almost the same as they are right now. The only difference would be that there is a metapackage pointing at all time to the latest version.
Because metapackages are considered evil in Fedora (I'm not sure exactly why).
To be perfectly honest I don't know either. But I already have half a dozen use cases on my table where metapackages can help. Perhaps it's time to re- consider this policy?
Thanks Jan