On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 22:35:03 -0500
Greg Swift <gregswift(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm all for that. Technically its one of the benefits of them being
different package namespaces that conflict, you won't get a change you
don't force with intent :)
Right. It would be something end users would have to specifically do...
'yum remove foo'
'yum install foo2'
...snip...
> Right. I think this may be something we want to ask the Fedora
> Packaging folks (who live on the packaging list) about.
good plan
Can you post over there about this and look for feedback?
> The main problem with conflicts is that it's something that
is
> detected by yum at the 'test' stage. It means you have chosen,
> downloaded a bunch of stuff and then yum tells you, "WOAH, these
> confict, fix it and try again". This is not very friendly. If you
> do this in the installer it's even worse.
that is unfortunate
yes, it sure is. ;(
hmm... still tough to justify running simultaneous on the same
server.
Maybe I've just always had machines available (both virtual and
physical) . That being said, i wonder if we make the packages support
--prefix if the customer can override and make it work?
I just don't think we should spend a lot of time and resources trying
to make something work for the sub1% that are doing something uncommon
and special in the first place.
True. I do see your point...
However, If one of the people that wants that wants to chip in and
provide use case, testing, and preferably patches that would be
awesome.
yeah.
...snip...
They are decidedly incompatible versions, but definitely the same
stack and namespace. since they run on the same version of ruby, its
not like we get a separation that way.
For any EPEL users that use rubygem-rspec (which has nothing built
against it.. see footnote in previous message), the rubygem-rspec2
would be a conflict and non-obsolete so they could keep on keeping on,
even update if there was one (which I don't believe there is or ever
will be based on rspec state).
With this example, i don't see why you'd want both versions. However,
I know that is not always going to hold true.
I guess maybe a series of scenarios being documented with suggestions
on handling would be best?
yeah. That would at least help us see what all the combos do/are.
kevin