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On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 06:00:30PM -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
You said you were packaging for Fedora, so I don't know how relevant it is, but here is the opeSUSE guidlines for the "conflicts" field:
As Tom "spot" Callaway is the author, it seems like this was copied from Fedora.
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_conflicts
I quote this one small section: === Acceptable Uses of Conflicts:
As a general rule, openSUSE packages must NOT contain any usage of the Conflicts: field. [...]
Oh my, "must" is a bit too much here. I'd prefer "should". Cheers, Michael. -- Michael Schroeder mls@suse.de SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF Jeff Hawn, HRB 16746 AG Nuernberg main(_){while(_=~getchar())putchar(~_-1/(~(_|32)/13*2-11)*13);} -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+owner@opensuse.org