On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 01:11:10PM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 10:43:19 +0100, Peter Boy wrote: > > > > Well, until now I didn't use fedora.us, because they are > > > > incompatible to all the other repos in some way. > > > > > > Or vice versa. Easy as that. > FWIW, I've never seen any inter-repository compatiblity problems in a > non-overlapping package set. But I belong to those people who see > compatibility problems due to overlapping packages. I'm glad we agree. http://www.fedora.us/pipermail/fedora-devel/2003-February/000210.html writes: > xine, mplayer, etc. > These packages would be vital to actually attract users to the > project. > More users would attract more attention, and perhaps more > developers would join us. Please help me convert Matthias' > FreshRPMS to the Fedora naming scheme. So the main cause of (yet to be proven [1]) incompatibility is the strategical mass creation of overlapping packages by a repository that put up as a manifesto not to care about compatibility with others (not even the ones it cloned). [1] The repos probably are not incompatible, but that's happenstance, not because there are mutual efforts in coordinating it. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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