FC3 rpm behavior change

Michael Schwendt fedora at wir-sind-cool.org
Sat Oct 30 22:08:32 UTC 2004


On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 20:58:29 +0000, Michael A. Peters wrote:

> On 10/30/2004 01:12:16 PM, Matias Féliciano wrote:
> 
> > 
> > The new behaviour is a bug.
> >
> 
> I absolutely 100% agree.
> If a third party wants their software to work with red hat/fedora then  
> the third party needs to make their software integrates with red hat/ 
> fedora and not the other way around.

Ack. Those 3rd parties can ask their users to --replacefiles install
their packages and explain why they find it necessary to overwrite
existing files.

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