man-pages-4.05-1.noarch conflicts with lirc-0.9.3a-1.x86_64

Elan Ruusamäe glen at pld-linux.org
Tue May 10 12:30:35 CEST 2016


On 10.05.2016 09:12, Jeffrey Johnson wrote:
>> Fixed in lirc-0.9.3a-2 / man-pages-4.05-2.
>> >
> Is file conflict detection an RPM misfeature?
no. it's packaging mistake (two packages installing same file path)

> It would not be impossibly hard to resolve a file conflict automatically,
> perhaps with an alternatives-like symlink farm analogue mechanism
> to permit multiple copies to coexist.
there's no alternatives, two packages should not provide same file.

lirc one was the outdated one, according to commits made.

-- 
glen



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