Re: Name is but sound and smoke

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On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 09:58:20 -0500, Doug Stewart wrote:

> | Extras should at most depend on Core, but not on Alternatives.
> 
> Okay, then, we need new nomenclature.  Say I want the newest Galeon,
> which (hypothetically) doesn't support the FC-shipped Mozilla but needs
> FC-moz++ (as was the case for RedHat 9).  On my RH9 boxes, I used Dag's
> galeon+mozilla packages.
> 
> Now, how would you suggest handling that situation?  What names would
> apply to the repositories where said packages reside?

When you need an updated core component (Mozilla) and an updated add-on
(Galeon -> Extras), I would expect such packages to be made available in
the development streams of Fedora Core and Fedora Extras.

> | As soon as you update software which is in Core or Extras, you don't play
> | well with the current scheme, and all your software would be "Testing
> | Alternatives".
> |
> 
> Hmmm.  Not quite right, IMHO.  Maybe "Unsupported" or something like
> that? 

With the quote cut like that, it might look confusing. However, Axel
referred to _upgrades_ and _rebuilds_ (probably with changed feature set)
of software in order to make new and upgraded add-ons possible. That would
at most fit into the development streams of Core/Extras/Alternatives.

It all boils down to what official updates to Core/Extras/Alt are
released. If the packages in current Fedora Core/Extras/Alt release are
not up-to-date enough, dependent new stuff can only go into development
streams or 3rd party repositories.

> Again, taking the Dag moz+gal situation, I wouldn't label them as
> "testing".  If Galeon fits in to the "extras" category, but I wanted the
> updated build and needed to upgrade Mozilla (a Core package), how would
> you propose working out such a situation?  Or are any users of such
> packages strictly off the RedHat Ranch?

Depends on whether you expect the community behind Fedora Extras and
Fedora Core Development to be much slower than a 3rd party repository.

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