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

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Tue Jul 31 20:43:46 UTC 2007


Dag Wieers wrote:
> 
> My believe is that repotags was not the issue. There was something else 
> that made it impossible. And I can not undo the thought that it is because 
> not having repotags makes EPEL authoritative and masks dependency 
> problems.

Can you explain that?  Authoritative over who/what?

> It has an unfair advantage for the repository that does not tag its 
> packages, and it is certainly not advantageous to the userbase.

Advantage at what?  And if there is only one untagged repo, can't the 
userbase tell who to blame?

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   Les Mikesell
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