On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 07:45:21PM -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> > On Jan 21, 2015, at 8:00, Jan Zelený <jzel...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Also I'd like to point out that if two packages offer the same provide, by
> > definition it means they are 100% exchangeable from the perspective of that
> > functionality.
>
> This is very, very wrong. Even minor differences in packaging and API can
> break stable configurations when they occur without notice. The classic
> example is "mysql-libs", which every MySQL fork includes and which are
> incompatible with components from other forks, and for which updates cause
> mixed updated from different major forks. Hilarity ensues.
Btw, this is why the Open Build Service does not rely not a standard
dependency solver, but does its own dependency solving. That way it
will report a "multiple providers" error if there are different providers
of some dependency and the config does not specify which package to
prefer.
Cheers,
Michael.
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