package, package2, package3 naming-with-version exploit

[Jan Zelený]

On 29. 3. 2013 at 13:22:40, Petr Pisar wrote:
> 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).

To be perfectly honest I don't know either. But I already have half a dozen 
use cases on my table where metapackages can help. Perhaps it's time to re-
consider this policy?

Thanks
Jan