On 2012-10-11 16:23, H. S. Teoh wrote:
Yeah, one of the poor design decisions of the early Redhat packaging system was to allow packages to depend on individual files, rather than packages. The result was a disastrous mess: some packages export different versions of the same file, and only a subset of them will work, leading to hair-tearing dependencies. Packages would step over each other's files, causing problems with each other and the rest of the system that depended on the same files, ad nauseum.
That sounds even worse, a terrible, terrible idea. -- /Jacob Carlborg
