Can i Obsoletes core packages from extras package?

Tue Jul 18 12:03:47 UTC 2006

On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 12:50 +0530, Parag N(पराग़) wrote:
> Hi,
>   I am planning to add Gutenprint package to Fedora-extras. Gutenprint
> was formerly called Gimp-Print. So once this package is in
> Fedora-extras it needs first to remove following packages
> gimp-print
> gimp-print-cups
> gimp-print-devel
> gimp-print-plugin
> gimp-print-utils
>  But is it allowed to do that?
> I have opened a review request for this package. You can check it at
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=199108
> 

No. Absolutely not.

Extras packages are not allowed to obsolete or explicitly conflict with
core.

-sv