[CentOS] Re: Mixing RPMforge and EPEL (Was: EPEL repo)

[Feizhou]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Dag Wieers wrote:
> 
>> You may argue that that is a good thing. But Fedora is a different 
>> beast than RHEL. People may want stable packages, or current packages 
>> and a single repository (with the tools we have today) cannot provide 
>> this.
> 
> But people may want _both_ the stable package and the current package on 
> the same machine at the same time.  Having a hint of the difference 
> barely visible in the package name doesn't help a bit.

I cannot see how it is possible to install both the stable package and 
current package.

> 
>> Besides, it punishes people who did not have an alternative back when 
>> Fedora Extras refused to do RHEL packages and only had RPMforge to 
>> fall back on.
>>
>> At least that's my point of view.
> 
> I think you are making too much out of name differences for things that 
> can clobber each other and not enough about ways to let the different 
> things co-exist - on the same machines if you want them, or to let users 
> choose which they want.  If two same-named packages can conflict, 
> someone did something wrong and the issue shouldn't be about who did it 
> but how to avoid it.
> 
> 

I disagree. If I was going to roll my own packages in my own repository 
to overrule the OS repositories, tagging my packages would be essential.