On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 2:04 AM, Robert Scheck <robert(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
Technically it should be possible to make the "postfix26"
package somehow
in parallel installable, but that requires a) patching postfix, b) lots and
lots of testing and c) SELinux adaptions - a huge effort for less result.
As you say it's technically possible and looking at other packages many people
have gone to a lot of lengths to make packages co-exist. This is for me one
of big benefit's of EPEL over some other repositories is that I know
(hope) it won't
break existing installations. Of course there's a place for genuine updates of
packages and IUS is doing a good job providing that. I agree this is a major
pain at time times, e.g I've been trying to get a parallel version of
apr and apr-util
built in a sensible way for some time now. I'd rather live with this
packaging pain though.
I know the "Philosophy of EPEL" says "to never replace
or interfere with
packages shipped by Enterprise Linux", but why should we have more strong
rules than Red Hat has? Let us look to python in EPEL-5: We're shipping
python26* packages - isn't this a "replace packages shipped by Enterprise
Linux" somehow?
python26 co-exists perfectly well with default python.
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Steve Traylen