On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Michael Schroeder <mls@suse.de> wrote:
> On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 10:21:48AM +0200, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
>> This way the whole version comparing stuff is fully pluggable, as one
>> can define how a version is parsed into its chunks and second how those
>> chunks are compared.
>
> Good luck with providing rpms for multiple distributions that use
> different version comparision settings...
>
> Having a fixed algorithm in place also has some benefits.

FWIW, i agreed. But exists AFAIK, i don't know all the details, some
hysterical reason for this not happening well

http://rpm5.org/community/rpm-devel/2440.html

Regards