Fedora Alternatives (Re: [fab] build service)

[Mike McGrath]

On 11/12/06, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info> wrote:
> Jason L Tibbitts III schrieb:
> >>>>>> "TL" == Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info> writes:
> > TL> And BTW, where is the rule in the packaging guidelines and the
> > TL> point in the review guidelines that forbids "Conflicts" or
> > TL> encourages people to avoid them?
> > There isn't one; Conflicts: is a perfectly valid thing to have.
>
> Well, sure, but the rule in the beginning always was "Extras packages
> don't conflict or replace packages from Core". Well, it seems it got
> lost on the way. I'm wondering if we should put it back, but I tend to
> think that's worth the trouble as Core and Extras might merge by FC7 in
> any case.

I've always interperated this:

MUST: Packages must not own files or directories already owned by
other packages.

as conflicts should be avoided.  I've even filed bug reports:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=201279

           -Mike