[CentOS] Re: are RPMForge and EPEL compatible?

[Heiko Adams]

Am Sonntag, den 09.12.2007, 21:27 +0200 schrieb Axel Thimm:
> ...
> I'll just repeat myself: If the packagers don't cooperate no technical
> solution will be able to really cover compatibilty problems. You'll
> paper over some of them and create a false feeling that you have
> mastered the compatibility problem and still wonder later why it
> doesn't work. I've seen dozen of such false bug reports which I call
> "partial/selective enabling of repos". Google the last term and you
> find many bad examples of such "solutions".
IMHO the best solution would be if CentOS would ship its repo-files
preconfigured for yum-priorities plugin and the priorities plugin for
yum by default. This would prevent that 3rd party repos to override
CentOS base packages.
-- 
Heiko Adams <heiko.adams at gmail.com>
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