On Wednesday 30 July 2003 02:12, Olivier Thauvin wrote: > Le Mercredi 30 Juillet 2003 01:52, Olivier Blin a écrit : > > Hi, > > > > arts can't be installed on my box whithout removing some kde core > > libraries. This may be caused by Obsoletes in arts spec file, arts > > obsoletes lots of packages, which don't to seem to be related: > > ktexmaker, ktelnet, kvirc ... (to be continued by Nanar) > > Yes I continue, I am surprised (very surprised) to see arts obsoleting: > ktelnet > aethera > brahms > kreatecd > quanta (hu !!)
It is needed due to bad packaging of (very) old KDE packages. It works nicely since some release now. > This mean, installing arts (and only arts) on a system will remove all > thoses rpm regardless what provides arts ! > arts produce on arts, libarts and libarts-devel. > > It will never replace the job of all thoses applications, These applications are obsolete. There are %version et %release tag. It will never remove a wrong version. We knew what we did when we putted those tags. [...] > Cleanup this ! > Normal rpm process, ie installing a new package, allready remove the > older, you don't have to obsoletes the whole distro in this package. And > I can have those packages without arts packages itself (because apps > requires the libs normally). No. It is impossible. -- David Baudens MandrakeSoft - http://www.mandrakesoft.com
