Re: FC3 rpm behavior change

[Rex Dieter <rdieter math unl edu>]

Stuart Jansen wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 11:40 +0100, Paul Nasrat wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 10:27 +0200, Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 01:20:58AM -0600, Dax Kelson wrote:
> > >
> > > >   In Fedora Core 3, RPM will ignore such conflicts, and the package
> > > >   installation will proceed, overwriting any conflicting files from
> > > >   previously-installed packages.
> > >
> > > Is there any way to revert to the previous behaviour ?
> >
> > rpm --fileconflicts
>
>
> So we've got a reply from an @redhat.com that says how to avoid the
> behavior. 

I have to agree with the consensus shown here that this change in 
default behavior is, to put in mildly, *just plain stupid*.  Please, 
please revert to previous, proper behavior, and force folks who insist 
on this broken behavior to use
rpm --replacefiles

Has anyone bothered to submit anything to bugzilla yet?  (If not, I'd be 
happy to).

-- Rex