On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 09:04:27AM -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > Not sure what the policies of Fedora and Centos to have multiple > versions of basically the same executable installed on the system at > once.
The Fedora policy is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines#Multiple_packages_with_the_same_base_name tl;dr is that it's okay, but it's deone through the hack of putting the version in the package name. This works fine when it's infrequent, but is a pain otherwise, especially since each new version needs to go through package review separately, gets its own repo in dist-git, and a whole bunch of other overhead. We have "some reasonable way of dealing with different package versions" on the deliverables from https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Objectives/Fedora_Modularization,_Prototype_Phase, so possibly we'll have a better answer soon, but that's where we are now. -- Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader
