Jeff Johnson:
> This simply is not true.

What is not true? Could you please include sentence you are referring to?

> Whatever "rpm format" means, historically RPM itself has always gone to some 
> lengths not to expose E: to users to simplify the endless fog of dependency 
> hell clutter.

Rpm does not print epoch in in standard --query output only in --info mode.

  $ rpm -q bind-libs
  bind-libs-9.9.4-61.el7.x86_64
  $ rpm -qi bind-libs
  Name        : bind-libs
  Epoch       : 32
  Version     : 9.9.4
  Release     : 61.el7
  Architecture: x86_64
  ...

It understands N-V-R.A or N-E:V-R.A as an argument but not E:N-V-R.A.

  $ rpm -q bind-libs-9.9.4-61.el7.x86_64 bind-libs-32:9.9.4-61.el7.x86_64 
32:bind-libs-9.9.4-61.el7.x86_64
  bind-libs-9.9.4-61.el7.x86_64
  bind-libs-9.9.4-61.el7.x86_64
  package 32:bind-libs-9.9.4-61.el7.x86_64 is not installed


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Michael Mráka
System Management Engineering, Red Hat
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