Re: repo agnostic package resolvers (was: Latest apt broken?)

On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 01:47 +0800, Jeff Pitman wrote:
> On Thursday 20 January 2005 00:13, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > Works well if there are a
> > handfull of them but does not scale well. Perhaps smart deals better
> > with file conflicts (e.g. auto-promotes them to Conflicts:) and
> > behaves better, but I haven't tested.
> 
> Interesting RFE to be aware of:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=131181
> 
> Implemented in 4.4.  (I think; haven't tested, yet.)
> 
> Although, maybe off-topic for this thread, but Obsoleting 
> directories/files eases packager's effort in determining what names 
> have been used before (twisted, Twisted, python-Twisted, 
> python-twisted) and just Obsolete the provided dir which will nuke 
> whatever existing packages are there.  Likewise, the repo-config 
> packages could use similar methods in the future.  (FC4+, I guess.)

And yet it makes the pkg mgmt a nightmare b/c now, instead of being able
to key on file name I have to go find the packages the provide that file
(or worse yet, if wildcards are involved) then figure out the arch for
those involved and match.

oh yah - gonna be a party rewriting the obsoletes parser.

-sv