Precedence for shadowing a monolithic Fedora package?

[Nicolas Chauvet]

Using alternatives seems appropriate, but you can also rename the
binary and the .desktop file so you can have a completely parallele
installable version.

Conflicting and Obsoleting fedora maintained packages have be avoided.

2009/8/22 Michel Salim <michael.silvanus at gmail.com>:
> Hi all,
>
> I maintain sonic-visualiser in Fedora -- it's an audio visualization
> tool that can optionally link against libmad, to support manipulating
> MP3 files.
>
> The Fedora build, naturally, has this disabled; I made it a build time
> switch to quickly enable the feature. It'd be nice if it can be shipped
> within RPMfusion, though, but because the package is monolithic, it can
> be annoying to do -- one can't just build the full package and then
> filter out the core parts, as is done with xine-lib-plugins-freeworld.
>
> What is the recommended way. Use an obsolete? Make them both parallel
> installable?
>
> Regards,
>
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