pidgin obsoleting itself

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le mercredi 09 juin 2010 à 12:19 +0200, Michael Schwendt a écrit :

> You _cannot_ add _optional_ packages to a user's installation _without_
> proper dependencies somewhere else. Attempts at trying to do that with
> Obsoletes are invasive and prone to getting it completely wrong.

Fonts SIG side we've managed several packaging splits with this recipe

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrade_paths_%E2%80%94_renaming_or_splitting_packages#.28n:m.29_Many_to_many_replacement

It works at the expense of a temporary compat metapackage that needs to
be cleaned up later.


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Nicolas Mailhot