[CentOS] Re: are RPMForge and EPEL compatible?

[Axel Thimm]

On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 08:55:08PM +0100, Heiko Adams wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 09.12.2007, 21:39 +0200 schrieb Axel Thimm:
> > ...
> > But what does that have to do with 3rd party repos A and B supporting
> > CentOS but being incompatible towards each other? This is not about
> > 3rd party repos replacing a vendor package, which is a different
> > policy issue altogether (and which is best solved by different
> > offerings on the server side anyway).
> Clarification: If the priorities plugin for yum would be installed by
> default or as an dependency of the 3rd party repo-release-packages it
> would be easier to tell the users to use this plugin. 

Priorities are evil and endorsing them is the wrong path. See my
replyies to Les.

> In fact it's nearly impossible for 3rd party repo maintainers to keep
> there repo compatible to more than one other 3rd party repo. 
> So it's the users job to prevent their installed 3rd party repo to
> replace other 3rd party repo packages.

Priorities and friends are not the answer, they are the second stage of
complicating a problem.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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