Le mardi 03 juillet 2007 à 14:24 -0400, Jesse Keating a écrit :
On Tuesday 03 July 2007 14:16:43 Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> '''
> For many reasons, it is sometimes advantageous to keep multiple versions
> of a package in Fedora to be installed simultaneously. When doing so,
> the package name should reflect this fact. One package should use the
> base name with no versions and all other addons should note their
> version in the name.
> '''
>
> This gives the maintainer the leeway to choose whether the package is
> best served by having the latest version carry the unadorned name
> forward or the previous version.
+1
-1
The compat convention is awkward precisely to incite people to converge
on a common version. Making multi-versioning easy is a win short term
and a heavy loss long-term, because everyone just hardcodes a particular
version hoping for "someone else" to clean up the mess.
--
Nicolas Mailhot