[PlanetCCRMA] planetccrma-apps and and audacity-nonfree

[Knut-Håvard Aksnes]

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 11:35 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 20:27 +0200, Knut-Håvard Aksnes wrote:
>>     
>>> Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
>>>       
>>>> On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 20:13 +0200, Knut-Håvard Aksnes wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
>>>>>           
>>>>>> On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 19:59 +0200, Knut-Håvard Aksnes wrote:
>>>>>>             
>>>>>>> Is it possible to make the plnetccrma-apps package and audacity-nonfree
>>>>>>> coexist. Audacity-nonfree is an "upward compatible" replacement for
>>>>>>> audacity.
>>>>>>>         
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>> Could you give me more details on what is not working? Error messages?
>>>>>>       
>>>>>>             
>>>>> "yum install planetccrma-apps" tries to install audacity which fails
>>>>> when audacity-nonfree is installed.
>>>>>           
>>>> Hmmm, hard to fix in a compatible way... if I drop audacity from that
>>>> meta package then it does not get installed, if I add the non-free one I
>>>> make livna a requirement (I don't want to do that). I don't see an easy
>>>> way out so far...
>>>>   
>>>>         
>>> Isn't it possible using triggers for these packages in the rpm file
>>> instead of static dependencies?
>>>       
>> Never tried using them. Do you have an example I could use?
>> (btw, thanks for the report!)
>>     
>
> It does not look likely I can use them, what I would need is something
> like "if packagex is installed then don't install packagey". Triggers
> apparently "trigger" in one package when there are rpm changes in
> another which is not what happens when I install planetccrma-apps. 
>
> The only thing I did come up with so far is having a
> "planetccrma-apps-livna" package that does the right thing if you have
> installed something incompatible with the original apps. 
>
> -- Fernando
>
>   
What about some kind of extra  wrapper packages one for each of the
audacity packages, the only thing the wrapper packages does
is to add a common virtual package capability and to require the
matching audacity version. planetccrma-apps requires this new common
capability.

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