[CentOS] Re: Demonizing generic Linux issues as Fedora Core-only issues -- WAS: Hi, Bryan

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sun May 29 01:42:15 UTC 2005


On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 14:38, Dag Wieers wrote:

> I have a real problem with this thread. It seems as if, according to some, 
> someone can only be with or against Red Hat.

I probably set the wrong tone in pointing out my specific problems as
examples, but those are the only ones I can go into detail about (and
I thought someone might jump in with a solution for my firewire
connection).  But, the real issue is planning to avoid the same
kind of problems for the next upgrade when the application dependencies
are likely to be even more entangled.

> I always have a sour taste in my mouth if you have to pick sides, because 
> that kills healthy rationalizing/critizing and often this has a hidden 
> agenda attached to it.

You probably have as much experience as anyone in trying to improve on
the choices RH has offered.  Is it ever going to be possible/practical
to have a single RPM repository that stays close to the developers
versions of applications and be able to use that same repository from
a variety of RH/Centos/Fedora base installations?  This, of course,
would also coincide with what commercial application vendors have
always wanted in terms of standard binary APIs, but my agenda is only
on the usability side - I'm not interested in selling anything.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell at gmail.com




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