Comment # 3 on bug 1217450 from Aaron Puchert

(In reply to Richard Biener from comment #1)
> But it would be nice if the versioned names didn't contain the
> minor/patchlevel versions since IIRC you can't install llvm-17.0.1 and
> llvm-17.0.3 besides each other anyway?  So, have llvm-ar-17 instead of
> llvm-ar-17.0.4?

I agree, and I suggested this some years back in bug 1120098, comment 1. The
maintainer at the time was worried that this might break some users. However,
I'm not so worried, and I'll try it out.

> Note GCC does indeed use 'llvm' on openSUSE Tumbleweed but follows the link
> and it Requires that at install time.  That means at least as far as OBS
> scheduling is concerned there's no obvious dependence to llvm17.  I guess
> for openSUSE Tumbleweed I'd ideally change the Requires to use
> llvm%product_libs_llvm_ver (I don't need the symlink package, neither at
> build nor at install time).  But then I'd have to use globs to find the
> name of the tools, so I wonder if we can shorten their names?

What do you mean here, apart from the version? Can you give an example?