On Wednesday 2014-12-17 23:28, Marcus Rueckert wrote:
`zypper up` won't do such replacements that would incur a vendor switch.
Just give the special case repository a higher priority. that should help in the zypper dup case too. but it means all packages coming from this repository will be preferred.
Not desired (at least in my case).
To “survive” past `zypper dup`, you can make a metapackage which is basically empty (you will need a dummy file in it), and otherwise has Require: lines, such as "mylib(myfeature)", the latter of which is what is to be added to your library subpackage.
(Example of all this is jeng-user-packages in http://jftp.inai.de/openSUSE_13.2 for example.)
Soon you wont need meta packages anymore.
Well I still want them for easy initial installation of the package group. (Might convert it to a pattern.)
Though one question remains, why is your change only useful for a special community and not the rest of openSUSE? what problem are you trying to solve?
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