[Fedora-ambassadors-list] First day at Solutions Linux

[Rahul Sundaram]

Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:

>On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 11:24 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
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>>We probably need better packaging guidelines for parallel installation 
>>of packages and not just specific to python. Go ahead and initiate the 
>>discussion.
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>Well, right now we don't really have _any_ packaging guidelines for
>parallel installation of similar packages, but I don't see why following
>the openssl model for libraries and using alternatives for binaries
>wouldn't suffice for the majority of cases.
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>~spot
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We need to document them specifically. Assuming that everyone would know 
how openssl is packaged to mimic that model wouldnt work. Might be a 
naive question but why not always stick the version number in front of 
the packages instead of using compat-* and obsoleting older versions 
like we do currently?

-- 
Rahul 

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