package, package2, package3 naming-with-version exploit

[Jan Zelený]

On 29. 3. 2013 at 12:37:18, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> 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"?

Yeah, probably. But that wouldn't show up on "yum list python". Not sure if 
that is actually a big issue ...

Thanks
Jan