On Wed, 2015-10-21 at 18:45 +0200, Achim Gratz wrote: > Yaakov Selkowitz writes: > >> and I don't see why any of you would like the idea. > > > > Because it is a well-established solution for the same issue on other > > platforms. > > I have never seen this used (I don't claim it isn't used somewhere, mind > you) and I still can't think of a good reason for why anybody should.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Use_of_Epochs > And "other platforms", including those that use plain rpm, seem to be > using fine-grained versioned dependencies in the concrete scenario > you've outlined. That's not related to this issue. -- Yaakov
