[Fedora-packaging] Thoughts for EPEL incompatible upgrades woes

[Patrice Dumas]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:38:11AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> 
> - Provide packages and reviews for the new version. ie, 'mediawiki18-' 
>   This would be a newer version that is incomptible with the base one
>   provided. Could we use Conflicts here? Or would we need to require
>   that any "forward compatibilty" package here does not conflict with
>   the base package? This means we have a small number of new reviews,
>   new packages. It also means that people who don't know to look for it
>   will not see it until someone tells them to install that version
>   instead of the base version. It also means we accumulate these over
>   time and have to EOL them somehow. 

In my opinion this is the best solution, and sill in my opinion 
there should not be conflicts. Maybe alternaties could be used.

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Pat