On 29. 3. 2013 at 13:22:40, Petr Pisar wrote:
On 2013-03-29, Jan Zelený <jzeleny(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> In this case we proposed another solution which was turned down (I'm not
> sure exactly why):
>
> Each package requiring multiversion support would have all these
> versions almost the same as they are right now. The only difference
> would be that there is a metapackage pointing at all time to the
> latest version.
Because metapackages are considered evil in Fedora (I'm not sure exactly
why).
To be perfectly honest I don't know either. But I already have half a dozen
use cases on my table where metapackages can help. Perhaps it's time to re-
consider this policy?
Thanks
Jan