[CentOS] Re: are RPMForge and EPEL compatible?
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri Dec 7 20:21:20 UTC 2007
Florin Andrei wrote:
> OTOH, yes, it would be so nice if all repos would be 100% compatible
> with each other. :-)
No it wouldn't because the reason you install something from a 3rd party
repo may be precisely because its differences. Maybe it would be nice if
anything incompatible had a different name - or maybe not. You can leave
everyone else out of this discussion if you think about what should
happen if you've installed a kernel from the centosplus repo and need
its features (e.g. one of the added filesystems)to make your system work
at all. Now, should some other repo's kernel automatically obsolete and
replace that one just because it bumps the version number and appears in
some other active repo first? Should you have to know a lot of obscure
details and edit obscure files to keep this from happening?
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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