Leszek Matok wrote, at 03/01/2008 11:12 PM +9:00:
Dnia 2008-03-01, o godz. 08:14:19 seth vidal
<skvidal(a)fedoraproject.org>
napisaĆ(a):
> no one is saying this isn't a valid part of rpm. I'm only saying that
> using these kind of filedeps has a cost and I'd like to minimize that
> cost as much as possible.
While we're on that, I don't have any numbers, but I think we have more of
Obsoletes: and Requires: that can't match any package in any supported Fedora
version (or any Fedora version at all). For example, compat-libgcc-296 has:
Obsoletes: gcc <= 2.96, compat-gcc
of which first hits RHL 7.3 and the second - Fedora 3 at most. I don't think
anyone is going to upgrade their system even from Fedora 3 (we're at 9), not to
mention 6-year-old RHL.
We are discussing these types of Obsoletes/Requires on "merge reviews" of
those packages (although I am not sure if someone has already begun to review gcc
merge review)
Regards,
Mamoru