[Bug 484862] GConf2-dbus : Conflicts with other packages

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Wed Jun 3 15:59:19 UTC 2009


> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484862
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> --- Comment #2 from John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com>  2009-06-03 11:45:26 EDT ---
> Of course it conflicts with GConf2.  It is GConf2 with a patch.  Pretty much
> binary ABI compatible unless the two have diverged recently.  It shouldn't be
> used beyond OLPC and even there with the fact that they are getting more memory
> and disk space they should just start using the Orbit2 dependency.  It was a
> hack to reduce dependencies while still letting GNOME packages run without
> modification.
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> DConf is the next generation DBus GConf and should be parallel installable once
> it is released (and accepted by GNOME).

Why are the relevant Obsoletes missing (commented out)?
These packages are available to package management tools.
The Fedora guidelines disallow implicit conflicts.




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