Re: some package splits

[Nils Philippsen <nphilipp redhat com>]

On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 12:08 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Nils Philippsen (nphilipp redhat com) said: 
> > Is this intentional (i.e. does it serve a purpose)? Otherwise the
> > depsolvers should be fixed as this makes splitting up packages rather
> > painful.
> 
> If you have syslog-ng, rsyslog, and something else all obsoleting
> sysklogd, I don't think you want to automatically install all of them.
> 
> (Then again, that may not be a proper usage of Obsoletes.)

Unless someone comes up with a compelling argument against it, let's
just act on the assumption that obsoletes are intended for the default
replacement(s) of old packages (and not just for any other package that
happens to provide the same or similar functionality). Perhaps this
should be spelled out in Packaging/NamingGuidelines?

Nils
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