Thank you, unknown genius!

[Todd Denniston]

Rahul Sundaram wrote, On 04/08/2008 06:42 PM:
> Anton Solovyev wrote:
> 
>>
>> Well, that's not unexpected. I am guessing the whole point of the 
>> change was to make it possible to stick in any number of possibly 
>> incompatible packages and not have to answer for an unusable install. 
>> All that under excuse of "security".
> 
> This is incorrect. Refer
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Conflicts
> 
> Rahul
> 

So for case A) rsyslog & syslog-ng, the above document indicates that those 
two packages are an "Implicit Conflict" and both should mark the other as a 
conflict, as at least I see no way they can safely inhabit and run on the same 
system. The only users who would not want them to conflict are the developers 
who are trying to compare them, i.e., folks who know how to manipulate a spec 
file. It seems that the syslog-ng maintainer has noticed, but the rsyslog 
maintainer has not, yet.
Bug# 441664

case B) ccid|ifd-egate & ctapi-cyberjack-pcsc, I am not sure about... they 
SHOULD work together, I have never seen an ifd-handler besides the cyberjack 
cause those problems.

Thanks for the URL.
-- 
Todd Denniston
Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane)
Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter