On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 09:49, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Nov 11, 2003, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> The idea (as I understand it) is that people want to easily have > >> add-on packages in their system without a risk that this might modify > >> core components. > > > E.g. choose their stability level. So let's use stability criterions. > > It's not really the same. > > One of the points is at the time of reporting a bug. Say I find a bug > in Mozilla, or in mplayer. Unless I can pinpoint which repository I > got Mozilla from, or the exact dependency of mplayer that caused the > bug, to figure out where I should report it, I'll be at a loss. Until you do rpm -qi <packagename> and look at the Vendor and/or Packager tags. ;) If you are good enough at tracing bugs to figure out the file (library, binary, etc.) it is in, you can use rpm to get the packager/source. -- Bill Anderson RHCE #807302597505773 bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
