Another round of testing calls. (redhat/openssh.spec)

James Ralston qralston+ml.openssh-unix-dev at andrew.cmu.edu
Wed Nov 14 09:37:27 EST 2001


On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, I wrote:

> IIRC, it was jbj who stated that this:
> 
>     Requires: openssl
>     Conflicts: openssl < 0.9.6
> 
> ...was preferred over this:
> 
>     Requires: openssl >= 0.9.6
> 
> But since I couldn't find anything to back up my recollection, I'll
> go ask on rpm-list, just to make sure I'm remembering properly.

My recollection was correct.  Jeff's explanation was that it's better
to describe the past (which is finite and is known) than to describe
the future (which is infinite and unknown).

-- 
James Ralston, Information Technology
Software Engineering Institute
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA




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