"Tom Horsley" wrote: > > I have seen lots of admonitions about the dangers > > of mixing packages from, for example, livna and > > dries. But I have not seen any clear technical > > descriptions of exactly *what* (with examples) the > > problem is! > > You download mplayer from livna, all is working. Then > you add freshrpms to get something from there that > livna doesn't have, and it starts updating your > mplayer libraries. Pretty soon nothing is from any > consistent source and your system is a mess. I guess what I don't understand (taking your example) is: 1) why should a package from freshrpms update the mplayer libs if I already have current versions installed? 2) Even if it does (because the release number in mplayer-version-release is higher), why will those versions break the livna mplayer? I.e, I am having trouble with the meaning of your word "consistent".
