upset, genini: different version ordering

Yaakov Selkowitz yselkowitz@cygwin.com
Wed Oct 21 17:04:00 GMT 2015


On Wed, 2015-10-21 at 18:45 +0200, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Yaakov Selkowitz writes:
> >> and I don't see why any of you would like the idea.
> >
> > Because it is a well-established solution for the same issue on other
> > platforms.
> 
> I have never seen this used (I don't claim it isn't used somewhere, mind
> you) and I still can't think of a good reason for why anybody should.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Use_of_Epochs

> And "other platforms", including those that use plain rpm, seem to be
> using fine-grained versioned dependencies in the concrete scenario
> you've outlined.

That's not related to this issue.

--
Yaakov





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