On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 05:05:23PM -0500, William M. Quarles wrote: > >There's been a lot of discussion about this. The points the page makes are > >real, and declaring their answer "Microsoft-ish" isn't constructive. Do you > >have an alternate *solution*? > I do recognize their points, but unfortunately you have failed to > recognize mine. In case you didn't notice, my message did point out an > alternate *solution*. Making Fedora Extras a very tiny "outer" core of library packages and not try to provide a wide base of packages that all work nicely together? That's more "dropping having Fedora Extras" than it is solving the problem of repository conflicts. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
