On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 12:48:12 +1100, Colin Charles wrote: > Don't forget to add a link to > http://www.fedora.us/wiki/RepositoryMixingProblems That page also explains why fedora.us cannot guarantee compatibility with other repositories, quoted below for completeness and as food for discussion. The paragraph is unchanged since April 25th, 2003. The Fedora.us project has made a decision that we cannot guarantee compatibility with other repositories because it is unmaintainable for these reasons: * The only way to avoid package conflicts when using multiple repositories is to completely avoid publishing packages that somebody else packages. This is obviously not an option because it would be too limiting for the Fedora project. * Coordination among two or more repositories for compatibility would be far too difficult and incur much greater overhead. Updates would often involve multiple repository owners working in coordinated development and simultaneous publishing in order to prevent user breakage. This is a huge amount of extra development overhead. * Users may also have any arbitrary mix of repositories, creating an unsupportable testing nightmare. For anyone, who seeks for comments from fedora.us leadership, fedora-devel-list might be much more suitable. -- Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang) - Linux 2.6.9-1.2_FC2 loadavg: 0.00 0.01 0.00
