On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Michael Schwendt wrote: ... snip ... > It would be natural to not replace any packages in that base > distribution. But how are you going to convince long-time productive > 3rd party packagers that they should stop packaging anything that is > found in the base dist nowadays? perhaps demonstrating my ignorance, but do some of the 3rd party packagers continue to package stuff that is now available in the official fedora repo? why? that strikes me as a recipe for really bad things to happen. 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 ========================================================================