>>Mandag 29 november 2004 03:05 skrev Dag Wieers: >> For me there's no reason to be incompatible. In fact, by being >> incompatible my users are indirectly harmed as they are inable t use >> fedora.us or livna.org. (Mind you, if you stay away from these >> incompatible packages, you won't notice this). >This really makes me happy. I am using kde-redhat, dag and freshrpms, >and it seems to work wondefully, there was a tiny issue with redhat- >menus recently but that was solved very quickly. The only problem is >that you have to repeat this on this list every so often so that people >will know what kind of mixing to avoid (Non power user here) Having no reliable way to know what "kind of mixing to avoid", I fret a little doing updates -- a mix of ATRPMS, DAG and fedora.us Have gotten stuck in the past where I had to force things or remove packages to get updates to go, I view this as a daunting issue to using linux especially with the uncertainty involved -- maybe I will always be able to get out of the problems I create but... There seems to be a lack of clear information on how to handle the current situation. Ok don't mix but if that is necessary how to best handle it? >From this thread I gleaned (correct me if I am wrong please) that mixing with fedora.us is potentially more problematic as they do things a bit differently sometimes. Not only that but ATRPMS seems to have better support for running mythtv and if in the future other repositories spring up to especially support a certain area, it would be nice if they could play with fedora.us. Also, I am not in the US and don't want to rely a on repository that is restricted by US laws. Still I've used mirrors of fedora.redhat.com which is/has(?) merged with fedora.us Extras, to get packages I absolutely needed which I couldn't find elsewhere (ex. evolution2 on FC2 -- needed as Japanese support on 1.4.6 was garbage -- not able to go up to FC3). I guess I feel stuck with a risky strategy to try and update my system. Well thanks everyone for your work anyway. If only it weren't so confusing and easier to do though... Maybe it's not such a problem and I will keep getting by. -- Shawn <javajunkie@xxxxxxxxxx>
