package, package2, package3 naming-with-version exploit

[Petr Pisar]

On 2013-03-29, Jan Zelený <jzeleny at redhat.com> wrote:
> In this case we proposed another solution which was turned down (I'm not sure 
> exactly why):
>
> Each package requiring multiversion support would have all these
> versions almost the same as they are right now. The only difference
> would be that there is a metapackage pointing at all time to the
> latest version.
>
Because metapackages are considered evil in Fedora (I'm not sure exactly why).

-- Petr