Retiring Opyum

[Panu Matilainen]

On Sun, 8 Jun 2008, David Timms wrote:

> Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> Jeroen van Meeuwen <kanarip <at> kanarip.com> writes:
>>> Would a "Obsoletes: pirut" have been more accurate and appropriate here?
>> 
>> There's both an Obsoletes and a Provides, the Obsoletes makes sense, the 
>> Provides not really, and it causes issues like this.
>
> It would sort of make sense to be able say in a spec:
> Provides: pirut(functionality)
> ie equivalent functionality = gui package management
> rather than the pirut(api) ?

"Pirut" is just a name and an implementation detail, you'd want something 
along the lines of "Provides: package-manager-gui" similarly to httpd 
providing "webserver" etc, that apps just wanting a GUI package manager 
can depend on. Blindly adding provides for everything obsoleted is just 
BAD, unless they actually provide a compatible interface (be it API or 
command names).

 	- Panu -