* Linda Walsh (suse@tlinx.org) [20060404 06:22]:
How would it cause any disruption? Let alone, major?
It would be a major deviation from the way rpm works and Novell/SUSE is not going to do something like that all alone. Again, you've picked the wrong list to discuss a topic. The right address for something like this would be rpm-devel@lists.dulug.duke.edu.
In SuSE 9.3, I count 265 different names that are duplicated in two or more packages. All told, 503 duplicate names.
Inside a .src.rpm? A normal .src.rpm contains one or more tarballs, a .spec .file, a changes file and varying numbers of patches.
If there is no parallelism in distribution builds, this may not be an issue for those builds, but for anyone unwrapping, looking at, and/or building more than one RPM at a time on the same machine, it's a potential pitfall.
Then do it differently! For instance don't install the .src.rpm but rather unpack it where you like and write a script that cleans /usr/src/packages/SOURCES and then copies your sources there. That's the way the build script basically works (it also sets up a chroot environment to build the packages in). Philipp