some package splits

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Thu Jan 31 17:08:30 UTC 2008


Nils Philippsen (nphilipp at redhat.com) said: 
> Is this intentional (i.e. does it serve a purpose)? Otherwise the
> depsolvers should be fixed as this makes splitting up packages rather
> painful.

If you have syslog-ng, rsyslog, and something else all obsoleting
sysklogd, I don't think you want to automatically install all of them.

(Then again, that may not be a proper usage of Obsoletes.)

Bill




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