On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 15:11 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 06:44:10PM +0000, Michael A. Peters wrote: > > Another thing - I hate beuracracy but this may be needed - a neutral > > naming authority. In cases where packages conflict simply because of > > different package name, if the naming can't be fixed between the repos > > themselves, let an independent community group decide. > > Fedora Extras _should be_ that independent community group. 1. Fedora Extras is run and conducted by RH. 2. It is RH, who until now has refused to cooperate with developers on selecting N-V-R conventions. Until now, each of the 3rd parties (which Fedora.US had been one of) has invented its own conventions. 3. N-V-R's are only one kind package conflicts being involved in incompatibilities which occur when mixing repositories. There are many more, much worser hidden package dependencies "occasional users" will rarely notice. Ralf
