On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Les Mikesell wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > perhaps, but that would violate the fundamental rule that's already > > been mentioned a number of times here -- don't mix non-fedora repos. > > "mentioned here" == a few hundred people understand it - maybe... > > > if they forget, and cavalierly start dragging packages out of other > > repositories sometime down the road, they have no one but themselves > > to blame. > > Can you point to the documentation that explains that? It's broken as > designed. it's certainly mentioned here: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/en/sn-using-repositories.html no, that clearly won't stop some people from screwing things up, but as long as people continue to build incompatible repos, i don't see that there's any perfect solution. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Home page: http://crashcourse.ca Fedora Cookbook: http://crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Fedora_Cookbook ========================================================================
