https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6426

--- Comment #22 from Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Maxwell G from comment #21)
> If suggesting "dnf install --allowerasing mesa-va-drivers-freeworld" isn't
> workable, I can think of a couple other solutions. I don't think any of
> these are ideal, but there's not much else we can do.
> 
> One solution is to name the va-drivers subpackage mesa-va-drivers and have
> "Epoch: 1". I think that's against RPMFusion's policies, though. 
> 

We don't need an Epoch on this side...

> The mesa-va-drivers-freeworld subpackage could Obsolete the Fedora package
> and have "Provides: mesa-va-drivers = 1:%{version}-%{release}", but I think
> that's worse.
> 

This would ensure ours would be considered an upgrade...

> We could ask the mesa maintainers to add
> 
> ```
> Recommends: (mesa-va-drivers or mesa-va-drivers-freeworld)
> Suggests: mesa-va-drivers-freeworld
> ```
> 
> but that's against Fedora's policies and wouldn't work if mesa-va-drivers is
> installed before RpmFusion is enabled.

This is not permitted, since we can't reference packages that don't exist in
Fedora.

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