package, package2, package3 naming-with-version exploit

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2 Apr 2013 14:16:31 +0000 (UTC)
Petr Pisar <ppisar at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 2013-04-02, seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2 Apr 2013 13:27:43 +0000 (UTC)
> > Petr Pisar <ppisar at redhat.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >> Misusing names does not allow all of that.
> >
> > misusing? Is this, again, another metaphor? Please speak plainly.
> > What do you mean here? Where is the misuse?
> >
> foo1, foo2, foo3 -- there is no ordering in the upgrade path, you
> cannot say foo2 or newer. From my point of view mangling package
> names (see scl_utils) is misuse.

There's no ordering b/c those pkgs are not intended to be
version-compared to each other. That is, in fact, the goal.

If you GOAL is to avoid version comparisons then it is hardly misuse.

You should go back and read James' example using shells, it might be
easier to understand.

-sv