[Fedora-packaging] Re: Policy question: how tight should cross-subpackage Requires be?

[Rex Dieter]

Tom Lane wrote:

> Another possible issue is whether a Conflicts-based solution is as
> friendly to the depsolver.  I have no idea if it's true or not

In general, it is not, which is one reason why the current guidelines pretty
much ban the explicit use of Conflicts (except for rare/exceptional cases).

-- Rex