Simon Wistow wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 07:13:06PM +0100, demerphq said:
>> You see RPM thinks that any given file can only have one source.
>
> That's mostly but not strictly trues. AFAIK you can differentiate
> between files it installs and what it claims it supplies. By default
> they're the same but you can make it so that even though perl.rpm
> installs Foo/Bar.pm it doesn't supply it and then the perl-Foo-Bar.rpm
> can be installed on top of it and then uninstalled without uninstalling
> perl.rpm
Which would seem to lead to the hateful situation of having just perl.rpm
installed and *nothing* claiming to own Foo/Bar.pm handily defeating the whole
point of a package manager. Unless they work around this with another hateful
hack?
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