yum, and 2 packages that provide the same thing

[Stephen Warren]

On Fri, April 18, 2008 3:45 pm, Mike Cronenworth wrote:
> -------- Original Message  --------
> Subject: Re: yum, and 2 packages that provide the same thing
> From: Mike Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com>
> To: Development discussions related to Fedora
> <fedora-devel-list at redhat.com>
> Date: 04/18/2008 04:41 PM
>
>>
>> Wasn't it the purpose of naming packages "foo-compat-version" so you
>> could have mulitple versions installed? It seems very silly to have the
>> version hardcoded with the package name. Just my lame opinion...
>>
>> Mike
>>
>
> Sorry for the spam... I mean "compat-foo-version".

That still has the version hard-coded into the name e.g. it would have
been compat-unison-213 as the name, judging by the name compat-gcc-34
existing.