-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bill Davidsen wrote: | Les Mikesell wrote: |> Bill Davidsen wrote: |> |>> With you. Once you have used a non-fedora repository you have assumed |>> responsibility for determining compatibility and resolving all |>> conflicts. Once you start using more than one you you have assumed |>> responsibility for those conflicts as well. The fault is yours. |>> |>> The solution is to put both repositories in as disables in the |>> config, then use --enablerepo on one or the other. I don't suggest |>> mixing them, I'm still trying to sort a problem I caused myself using |>> only livna, something used by pine isn't right and I can't find out |>> what to get it out and clean it up. Fortunately it's not critical on |>> that system. |>> |>> I understand your problem, but you should understand it's YOUR |>> problem, you caused it, the responsibility lies with you. And for my |>> broken machine, with me. |> |> You are blaming the victim here for something that should be |> preventable. Repositories don't _have_ to conflict with each other. |> | You are damn right I am blaming the victim. If I had a Dodge (Fedora) | truck, and I enhanced it with some parts from Ford (livna), and then | went and got some other parts from Chevy (freshrpms), who's fault is it | if they don't work right together? | | Repositories are independent operations with conflicting goals and in | some cases legal issues. There is no way anyone at Fedora can force | these 3rd parties to cooperate, and for legal reasons they probably | shouldn't. | | "Da Rock" claimed "Yum would very well be easy to fix and resolve some | of the major issues here." Please submit patches, or a detailed desing | showing how yum can tell which identically named parts from different | sources will work together. The proposed "simple solution" just flat out | doesn't work, there are basic packages which are not necessarily in the | package group. We await your solution, and don't add anything new to RPM | headers which would break all current RPMs. | | This is not a Fedora problem, or even a Linux problem, anyone who has | added 3rd party software from two sources to their Microsoft O/S has | probably seen problems as well, at least if they use the same devices or | resources. It's the nature of the system, and at least Linux site are | far more likely to help than blame the other site. | | Until "Da Rock" solves the problem for us it's something the | administrator needs to control, regardless of the O/S in use. | Well said Bill. For the umpteenth time. But I wonder if anyone heard? Nah. Probably not. ;-) - -- ~ David -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (MingW32) iEYEARECAAYFAkfJ5IUACgkQAO0wNI1X4QH93wCfYvjFVhx4PibsvWjDDw/Fr+fQ q9wAoPtb5rRqtSLU+4oTmKq1NOfdm9H1 =13Wx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
