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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor•com>
To: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail•com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-core-foo -> git-foo, except the core package
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 10:38:58 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <437A2B42.1080203@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <625fc13d0511150919l48786dcam6fda56bc9d3a9fa0@mail.gmail.com>

Josh Boyer wrote:
>>
>>True.  If you have a solution to that, I'd love to hear it.  Note that
>>having the core package depend on everything else is not acceptable.
> 
> %preun section that does rpm -e of the packages it brings in.  But
> that is a hack that would cause some to become violently ill.  Perhaps
> it's an issue not worth worrying about.
> 

%postun, but yes, that sounds pretty sick to me.  The Fedora people 
might disagree, in which case let them lead and we can follow suit.

	-hpa

      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-11-15 18:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-15  6:12 [PATCH] git-core-foo -> git-foo, except the core package H. Peter Anvin
2005-11-15 14:41 ` Josh Boyer
2005-11-15 16:16   ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-11-15 17:19     ` Josh Boyer
2005-11-15 18:05       ` Andreas Ericsson
2005-11-15 18:38       ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]

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