On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 01:40:06 +0100 (CET), Dag Wieers wrote: > Let me add to this that the incompatability of the 3rd party repositories > has nothing to do with the inability or unwillingness of the 3rd party > packagers (to the contrary). But the unwillingness (and policy) of > fedora.us to not allow for compatibility. Apparently it is too hard to > work with the community. "If it's not in bugzilla, it's not a bug." For instance, in bugzilla.fedora.us I've yet to see bug reports from package developers about repository conflicts which are deemed solvable. And let me add to this discussion, that 3rd party repositories which upgrade Fedora Core, are an unsolvable source of repository conflicts. Not RPM-style file conflicts, but dependency conflicts. If they split their packages into Extras and Alternatives, that would be a first step in the right direction. Btw, fedora.us is the only repository which has package naming guidelines and other policies published. -- Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang) - Linux 2.6.9-1.2_FC2 loadavg: 0.08 0.07 0.07
