On Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 12:11:42PM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 18:11:32 +0100,
>  Fabio Valentini <decatho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 5:57 PM Bruno Wolff III <br...@wolff.to> wrote:
> >
> >I'm also not sure how you would detect that from the package metadata
> >... query all packages for their file contents, and then show
> >conflicts when two packages own the same file, but do not explicitly
> >Conflict? I think that's probably too simplistic ...
> 
> I don't think that practice is banned currently,

It is, see https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Conflicts/.
Files should be renamed to remove the conflict, and if not possible,
explicit Conflicts must be added.

> but it would probably cut down on mistakes if it were. Having two
> sources of truth that are supposed to be identical, makes it easy
> for people to make a mistake.

Yes, it is super annoying to users, because the error is not reported
in the initial stage, but only after all packages have been downloaded.

Zbyszek
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