File conflicts, how do they work at that point?

[Panu Matilainen]

On Wed, 21 Nov 2007, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> Panu Matilainen wrote:
>
>> 
>> Yes it's confusing and inconsistent behavior which I *really* want to get 
>> rid of. It's just that this is not a simple matter of "fixing rpm" - our 
>> package set is full of conflicting files. The package set needs fixing, 
>> otherwise you'll have a very much uninstallable x86_64 (and to slightly 
>> lesser effect ppc) tree.
>
> Wouldn't fixing rpm early in the development cycle encourage more packages to 
> get fixed faster?

That's the very reason bug #190209 is being dusted off at the moment :)

 	- Panu -