On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 2:31 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote:

For a starter, I propose excluding all new uses of Conflicts (except with
< someEVR versioning where an EVR >= someEVR is already available in the
repository, or if the item being conflicted with is not in Fedora), and
trying to get the existing ones fixed in a reasonable timeframe.

You are putting the cart before the horse. You have to demonstrate its feasible to fix them before excluding future uses. I don't see how it is possible to fix the entire distribution to never use conflicts.

Rahul