File conflicts in Fedora Extras Development

[Nils Philippsen]

On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 11:30 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > uw-imap-devel-2004g-4.fc5.2.i386.rpm
> >   => All file names in this package are found in the repository elsewhere!
> >   => Package conflicts with: libc-client-devel - 2004g-2.2.i386
> 
> Known, which is why this package already includes:
> Conflicts: libc-client-devel
> A smarter version of this script could probably omit bits already marked
> with a Conflicts: tag.  (:

Somehow this strikes me as wrong... Either uw-imap-devel supersedes
libc-client-devel or vice versa (then one should also obsolete the
other) or they are independent things (in which case the file conflicts
should be solved, e.g. by using separate base directories for the
files).

Nils
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