separate sysv subpackages

Callum Lerwick seg at haxxed.com
Mon Jul 23 18:26:31 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 09:51 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> At this time, it's not really useful to Fedora.  It's useful to
> downstream consumers of fedora rpms put into derived distributions, but
> so far I've only heard of one person who makes use of that.

Downstream packagers can just make some kind of dummy package that
Provides: initscripts or whatever, if they're really that dead set on
removing/replacing an otherwise vital system package like initscripts,
rather than pushing this into Fedora.
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