On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 10:52, Jack Coates wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 10:30, James Sparenberg wrote:
> ...
> > 2. Either/or .....  For building rpms that deploy across multiple
> > platforms.  Then if 2 packages with different names both supply a needed
> > function or library it would look for one then the other.  Really
> > helpful when you have something like perl_Net for one distro and
> > perl-Net for the other.  
> > 
> 
> Oooh... is that real or is it a proposed feature? That would fix a lot
> of RPM problems. Or maybe regex-checking of names, so the search is for
> /perl.net/i version >1 so that perl-Net1 would match. Erm, no, that'd
> still break because the MDK guys are fond of making perl-Net-1.0.2 into
> perl-Net1-0.2mdk. Oh well, I guess this just goes back into the "rpm
> sux" box.

I proposed it... but I don't think it's going to go anywhere.  It's been
6 months or so and I didn't here anything back... 

James

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> > Jack Coates
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