On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Michael Schroeder wrote:
The question is then if we should not change zypp to mimic the rpm behavior.
Oh, we already do that. I had to patch rpm in both directions to make it compatible to zypp.
At least in 10.3 the behavior is different, if you try to install java-1_5_0-sun-plugin and java-1_6_0-sun-plugin at the same time, with rpm it succeeds, with zypper it fails.
True, but they obsolete each other.
Only 1_6_0 obsoletes 1_5_0, not the other way around.
So if you first install java-1_5_0-sun-plugin and then java-1_6_0-sun-plugin, java-1_5_0-sun-plugin will be silently gone.
That's not true, all packages remain installed. I suppose rpm -U does the trick but certainly not rpm -i. And there I see the confusion, that people might expect zypper in to behave in the same way as rpm -i, but that's obviously not the case. But if there's a consensus the confusion is not there we could let things be as they are now and let it be :) Michal -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-softwaremgmt+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-softwaremgmt+help@opensuse.org