On Thu, 2013-04-04 at 21:29 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote: > From technical perspective, there's zero need to change how > multiversion packages work. Its a widely used (at least both in rpm and > dpkg worlds) and well-understood mechanism to slap extra qualifiers at > the end of the name to achieve that. If you want pretty, human > consumable names and versions for things, that is an entirely different > issue that could be addressed without breaking the whole world. Comps is > one mechanism towards this, other possibilities could be adding separate > "pretty name" (and maybe version too) tags to packages and present that > to users when it exists. Or something.
This makes complete sense. One thing I'd add is that given that "package names" are unpredictable identifiers chosen arbitrarily by a human at package creation time, we should be making more use of provides. So rather than talking about installing "git" the package, you install /usr/bin/git. Similarly for build dependencies, software should require pkgconfig(gio-2.0), not the arbitrary "glib2-devel" name. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
