On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 21:21 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 12:38:53 -0400, Temlakos wrote: > > > Michael Schwendt wrote: > > > On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:04:59 -0400, Temlakos wrote: > > > > > > > > >>Sean O Sullivan wrote: > > >> > > >>>The more repo's you want, the more conflicts and dependancy issues you > > >>>will have - it is not a good idea to add every repo you can find. > > >>> > > >>>Personally, base/updated-released/extras, then dag and freshrpms are > > >>>very reliable I find. atrpms i usually fine, although wouldn't use for a > > >>>server. Other than that wouldn't touch many others - especially not > > >>>livna ( http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/FAQ.php#D ) > > >>> > > >>>Regards, > > >>> > > >>>Sean > > >>> > > >> > > >>Are you sure about that? The way I heard it, livna and extras were part > > >>of the same mold. Now I'll let Dag and Axel speak for themselves, but > > >>the impression I got from following the link you gave is that they > > >>wouldn't even want you to use extras, just because the extras > > >>maintainers won't "play nice" with them. > > > > > > > > > What solution could you think of? > > > > > > > Well, /somebody/ has to meet the other one halfway! All that I see on > > the extras site is that they want us to encourage the /developers/ of > > the applications or other packages involved to /submit their packages to > > extras/ for inclusion. Or they encourage /us/ to submit the packages to > > extras. /Not one word/ do they speak about coordinating their efforts > > with those of men like Dag and Axel. > > We've had this discussion some weeks ago (see archives). What would that > coordination look like? Can you give some details please? > > > The head of > > extras can speak for himself, of course, but the impression I have is > > that the "quality control" process even to /get/ a package into extras > > takes longer than the typical release cycle of Fedora. > > This is nonsense. > > > Extras did surprise me when, the first time I configured my system (back > > in FC3) to use extras, I got twenty-two updates of packages (like > > anjuta) that I had installed from dag or at-stable or freshrpms. So > > their selection is moving up. I'd like to see the process move a bit > > faster, that's all. > > Which process? Packagers at Fedora Extras can update their packages any > day any time. There is no process which slows them down. Except the people > who need to GPG sign the built binaries and push them into the repository. > FORKED TOUNGUE ALERT! FORKED TOUNGUE ALERT! FORKED TOUNGUE ALERT!
