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From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a "make rpmball" target
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 18:31:50 +0100
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On Mon, Mar 03, George Dunlap wrote:

> "remove another named package(s) when this package is installed" -- I think
> that's a bit more than we want in the rpmball.  I'd much rather the
> developer have to remove the conflicting packages themselves, rather than
> have it done automatically.

It would mean "rpm -e --nodeps xen-tools xen-libs" has to be used. If
any other package depends on the xen-libs for example, then in my
opinion its better to get a clear "libxl.so.4 is required by XY" when
doing "rpm -U xen.rpm". 


Olaf