From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-core-foo -> git-foo, except the core package Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 10:38:58 -0800 Message-ID: <437A2B42.1080203@zytor.com> References: <43797C41.2050809@zytor.com> <625fc13d0511150641k353d7128pf72f3542da601104@mail.gmail.com> <437A09F2.8080109@zytor.com> <625fc13d0511150919l48786dcam6fda56bc9d3a9fa0@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Nov 15 19:50:41 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ec5iB-0008GS-Q9 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 19:39:20 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751461AbVKOSjR (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:39:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751467AbVKOSjR (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:39:17 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:44171 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751461AbVKOSjQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:39:16 -0500 Received: from [10.4.1.13] (yardgnome.orionmulti.com [209.128.68.65]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id jAFId3mK001244 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 10:39:04 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Josh Boyer In-Reply-To: <625fc13d0511150919l48786dcam6fda56bc9d3a9fa0@mail.gmail.com> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.87.1, clamav-milter version 0.87 on localhost X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on terminus.zytor.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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