package, package2, package3 naming-with-version exploit

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 01:15:53PM +0100, Jan Zelený wrote:
> Example:
> python-3.2.3-7.fc17       (metapackage)
> python2-2.7.3-7.2.fc17
> python3-3.2.3-7.fc17
> 
> Metapackage "python" could be pointing to whatever version the maintainer 
> thinks is the best, obviously the version of the metapackage would correspond 
> with the version of package it points to. Update path is clearly defined and 
> user can do both "yum install python" and "yum update python" without any 
> confusion.

Couldn't it be done even more easily by having only the python3
package "Provides: python"?

Rich.

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