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On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:59:06 -0500 |
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Doug Klima <cardoe@g.o> wrote: |
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> You just answered your own question. If another package now provides |
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> files that an existing package provides, they must be blockers. |
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That's really bad policy -- it's pushing a package manager limitation |
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onto users in a visible and highly messy way. Really, it needs to go in |
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the short term (along with collision-protect) to avoid this kind of |
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nonsense on upgrades, and in the long term be fixed by getting rid of |
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blockers in favour of a more verbose syntax that gives the package |
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manager the information it needs to handle all this itself. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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