Precedence for shadowing a monolithic Fedora package?

[Michel Salim]

On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 18:53 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:35:46 +0200, Nicolas wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Nah, explicit Conflicts are fine in that case.
> audacity vs. audacity-freeworld is one example.
> Users need to choose between either one.
> 
> Relocating an application and all its files it may read/write just
> to make it parallel-installable with another build of the same/older/newer
> application is just not worth the extra effort. And if you don't relocate
> or rename config/run-time files, there's the risk that this causes
> side-effects since one app is built with more features than the other
> one or is a different version even.

In this case, not *too* much of an effort:

$ rpm -ql sonic-visualiser
/usr/bin/sonic-visualiser
/usr/share/applications/fedora-sonic-visualiser.desktop
/usr/share/doc/sonic-visualiser-1.6
/usr/share/doc/sonic-visualiser-1.6/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/sonic-visualiser-1.6/README
/usr/share/doc/sonic-visualiser-1.6/README.OSC
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/sonic-visualiser.png

but yes, having a Conflicts: should be good enough. In this case, I
should not be using Obsoletes: and Provides:, right? Unless there are
other packages that depend on sonic-visualiser being installed, that
could make do with sonic-visualiser-freeworld.

The other concern is legality. I'm currently based in the US, so ... not
sure how much I can do this myself.

Thanks,

-- 
Michel
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