package, package2, package3 naming-with-version exploit

[Vít Ondruch]

Dne 29.3.2013 22:49, Nicolas Mailhot napsal(a):
>>>> This is what I am taking about:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.devconf.cz/slides/mls-pkgmgmt2.pdf
>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNwNF19oFqM
> The most interesting parts of the presentation IMHO are :
>
> 1. the acknowledgement that sometimes, you really need operators such as
> AND and OR to express some constrains cleanly
>
> 2. the acknowledgement some provides want to be in list/tuple form (and
> the package management should be able to identify the correct package when
> the user requests an element in this list)
>
> But the solutions presented for those needs are more hacks and prototypes
> than definitive answers.
>

I think they solved the dependency solving, which is IMO the hardest 
part, in libsolv and they are missing support for appropriate metadata 
in RPM. That is why it looks so hacky.


Vít