Re: Conflicts · Re: [Bug 226377] Merge Review: rpm

[Jeff Spaleta]

On 8/27/07, Michael Schwendt <bugs.michael at gmx.net> wrote:
> Still not true. There are exceptions. Else a few current Fedora
> packages, which conflict explicitly, could not be in the collection.
> Other packages live on happily with bugs filed but no fix for a very
> long time.
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Conflicts


Exceptions prove the rule. However, in the case of rpm and other
pieces of technology we acknowledge as critical, I think we have to be
exceedingly careful.  We must insist that secondary implementations in
fedora avoid conflicts with the primary implementation that the
distribution relies on.

-jef