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Re: [PATCH] git-core-foo -> git-foo, except the core package

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HAH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date
Nov 15, 2005, 18:38 UTC
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Josh Boyer wrote:
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>>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
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