On Wednesday 27 April 2005 01:58, Rex Dieter wrote:
| The bugzilla report referred to now on several occasions
| documents the rpm behavior
Axel T. provided a suggestion in 130352 to possibly use
Provides(noupdate) to work around the behavior. Since the current
stance for an implicit Obsoletes is: "This is the implemented and
desired behavior, not gonna change."
I'm wary of any high-level workaround. It would be optimal and less
brittle if it's something controlled at the package level.
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-jeff