On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 03:07:29 +0200, Danny Terweij wrote: > > > > > this is starting to get kind of tiresome. having followed the > > > > > instructions at: > > > > > > > > > > http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/ > > > > The problem is overlapping content in repositories, which are either not > > meant to be used together or which are not tested for compatibility at > > all. The problem gets worse when a repository replaces Fedora Core > > packages and moves you farther away from the tested base distribution. > > I am using this repo since KDE 3.4 was released. Upgraded it on FC2, later i > upgraded FC2 to FC3. > (FC2>3 was a hell but thats another story and is somewhere at the list > archive). > I have mixed a lot repo's and as today still no bad deps shit. > > Also on a FC3 box, i installed that without GUI. later on i did install X > and gnome and the KDE 3.4 from the repo mentioned. All is working fine and > no problems. yum update once in a time is doing good jobs. > > But maybe i do not use packages that other users are using that breaks > things.... Exactly. That's the key observation. What may work for you, can fail miserably for other users. A single package can have a big affect on the transaction set and either break many dependencies or pull in a chain of packages, which in turn break dependencies. The experience can also be influenced by the time you run your yum updates (aka "version-release race" of repositories with overlapping/conflicting content). The policy for Core and Extras, that they must not conflict and that Extras must not upgrade Core, is a foundation for an extended set of base packages, which can be built upon. E.g. by a 3rd party repository like rpm.livna.org. It's up to rpm.livna.org to play well with this base just like Extras plays well with Core. Every opposite behaviour is a bug. -- Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Core release 4 (Stentz) - Linux 2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 loadavg: 1.08 1.04 1.08
