On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 10:05 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > 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. I thought that the main 3rd-party repos were to pool everything into a jumbo repo with everything ironed out? THAT would be a true "blessing" for all of us. Heck, I'll fry the chicken to take part in that pot-luck dinner. Everyone at the same table! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! <does back-flips down the aisle> :O Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net <---down4now too ================================================
