[repo-coord] Re: repo agnostic package resolvers (was: Latest apt broken?)

[Jeff Pitman]

On Thursday 20 January 2005 00:13, Axel Thimm wrote:
> Works well if there are a
> handfull of them but does not scale well. Perhaps smart deals better
> with file conflicts (e.g. auto-promotes them to Conflicts:) and
> behaves better, but I haven't tested.

Interesting RFE to be aware of:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=131181

Implemented in 4.4.  (I think; haven't tested, yet.)

Although, maybe off-topic for this thread, but Obsoleting 
directories/files eases packager's effort in determining what names 
have been used before (twisted, Twisted, python-Twisted, 
python-twisted) and just Obsolete the provided dir which will nuke 
whatever existing packages are there.  Likewise, the repo-config 
packages could use similar methods in the future.  (FC4+, I guess.)

have fun,
-- 
-jeff