Fedora Project launches Pre-Extras

[Dag Wieers]

On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Jeff Spaleta wrote:

> On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 03:44:49 +0100 (CET), Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com> wrote:
> > Similarly how would you decide if zelda or zork should be used. There's no
> > logic to it. That's why the repotag is at the end, if it's up to the
> > repotag to decide what to happen it's already a lost case anyway.
> 
> Maybe you missed my point... i tend to be too subtle sometimes.....
> i want rpm fixed to  actually use vendor information so when updates
> are calculated.. the vendor comes into the calculation in a different
> way than release number. Until we actually FIX rpm to have a native
> undestanding of package heritage from a vendor  when doing an
> upgrade...then yes...  all of this nashing of teeth about multi-vendor
> dynamics is a lost cause.     I want rpm to be fixed to have a deep
> understand that packages can come from different vendors and that
> vendor-ness  is essentially different than release-ness.

Please do. I'm not sure how you would implement it or how it would work. 
But let me know when you've got a design or an implementation ready.

I don't think it is necessarily part of RPM, but I'm open to suggestion 
and constructive work.

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