[CentOS] Re: are RPMForge and EPEL compatible?

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 20:32 +0100, Heiko Adams wrote:
> 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.
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which of course flies in the face of their commitment to staying true to
upstream.

Ultimately, the user has to take responsibility for their own boxen.

Craig