Hi Antonio, On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 8:11 PM Antonio T. sagitter <sagit...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > 'openbabel2' and 'openbabel3' cannot co-exist if installed because they > have same binary files, it's a "binary name conflicts". > > Is it acceptable an openbabel2/openbabel(3) conflict in Fedora?
I think that the people you'd be catering to by providing both packages are also the ones more likely to be bitten by the conflict between them. Taking Avogadro as an example, there are people who use both Avogadro and Avogadro2, because of their different feature sets. If one day these people are notified that they can't have both Avogadro and Avogadro2 installed at the same time, I don't suppose they're going to be much less displeased than when they'd find out that Avogadro had been deprecated. In my view, the way forward is for maintainers to patch what can be patched to work with Open Babel 3 and lay the others to rest. Less work for you and slightly less or equal amount of frustration for the users. At least now that enough time has passed since the 3.x release, as Mamoru pointed out, a lot of the work required has already been done by other distros. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
