On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 11:30:27AM +0100, Matthias Runge wrote: > > You're thinking about php53 also providing php = %{version}-%{release}?
Yes. > Otherwise you'd produce an interesting pile of dependencies. Those > packages also need to obsolete the older packages and must be marked as They can. > conflicting, to prevent unintentional upgrades. Did I miss something? They don't have to really -- the conflict will be on the files level. > What about a package upgrade, which requires upgrades of several > packages? Following your proposal this IMHO makes several manual steps > necessary. Yes. And that's the point -- if you have php53 installed, it should not be easy for you to shoot yourself to the foot to by upgrading to php54 or php == 5.5 or something. You probably moved to php53 to stay on that version. -- Jan Pazdziora | adelton at #satellite*, #brno Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ epel-devel-list mailing list epel-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list