[25389] in Athena Bugs
Re: athena-gal does not provide "gal"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Fri Jan 2 12:21:14 2004
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 12:21:05 -0500
In-Reply-To: <1073063778.32657.66.camel@error-messages.mit.edu> (Greg
Hudson's message of "Fri, 02 Jan 2004 12:16:22 -0500")
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Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> We punted all the Provides declarations in the 9.2 release spec files
> because we found they were running up against Conflicts declarations,
> were being a maintenance hassle (e.g. I would miss an epoch declaration
> and wind up being slightly inaccurate), and were making us more likely
> to run into rpmlib bugs.
Hmm, I wonder what conflict declarations you're hitting... Strange.
But ok..
> I will add the native gal, bonobo, and gnome-print packages to the
> release; they are only about 6MB total.
Wont this cause a conflict between the Athena versions of these
packages and the RH-distributed versions? What if an application
links against the wrong version of the library?
-derek
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