On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 22:58 -0500, William M. Quarles wrote: > Jeff Vian wrote: > > <snip> > > And this is one problem with third party packagers. Non-standard > > naming/packaging practices and the extent by which some modify the core > > OS make compatibility choices difficult. Total lack of documentation on > > the changes and compatibilities make it hard to know what is right, so > > using a site where everything is known to "just work" without breaking > > something else is a big factor. > <snip> > > I'm confused about the "so using a site where everything is known to > "just work" without breaking something else is a big factor" part. A > little clarfication might be helpful. > That comment was based on reputation gleaned from the mailing list, as well as personal experience (good with some repositories, not so good with others). > FreshRPMs has complete descriptions and changelogs for every SRPM its > website if you go there to download individual packages. However, it's > much more efficient to just use Yum or APT, which doesn't deal you any > documentation. Perhaps a more upfront "this is what installing my stuff > using Yum/APT will do to your system" would be helpful. > > ---- > Peace, > William >
