From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 18:38:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-core-foo -> git-foo, except the core package
Message-ID: <437A2B42.1080203@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <625fc13d0511150919l48786dcam6fda56bc9d3a9fa0@mail.gmail.com>

Josh Boyer wrote:
>>
>>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