KDE Sub-Packaging Approach on Fedora

[Rex Dieter]

Hugo Cisneiros wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 June 2006 10:33, Rex Dieter wrote:
> 
>>Jonathan Underwood wrote:
>>
>>>OK - I'd missed that subtelty, sorry. I suppose that's the best (most
>>>consistent) situation that can be hoped for.
>>
>>Or, follow what koffice in Extras did, and use a meta-package named
>>koffice-suite.  A nice advantage of this approach is that since the old
>>name is no longer being used, we have the opportunity to drop all those
>>darn Epoch's from kde packaging.
> 
> 
> And break with upstream package name, package name that the current users are 
> already accustomed, and kdebase and kdelibs should not be sub-packaged, so 
> they will still have these nasty Epochs. I see no advantages here.

Not if you properly Provides/Obsoletes the old name.  Obviously, the 
subpackaging idea doesn't extend to *all* kde packages, only for the 
ones for which it makes sense.

> BTW, I had difficulties into installing koffice because of this reason: a 
> simply yum install koffice didn't work. Then I installed one for one until I 
> found out koffice-suite exists (dumb me!) :)

I consider that a bug/shortcoming of yum.  koffice-suite properly 
Provides/Obsoletes "koffice", but 'yum install' doesn't grok "Provides", 
only real pkgs.  ):

-- rex