On Friday 07 December 2007, Karanbir Singh wrote:
I'd be happy to host the rest of this conversation in centos-devel@centos.org - which might actually have more people watching who play a role in these situations ?
There is one point that belongs in the user CentOS list (and not on centos-devel) that is relevant to this discussion. And, Johnny, I know it isn't a CentOS issue; it is a CentOS user's issue, however, and this is the only post on this subject I plan to make.
If a CentOS user wants KDE-Redhat on CentOS, then that user will be using EPEL (KDE-Redhat now requires it).
The incompatibility between EPEL and, say, DAG, means you no longer can mix KDE-Redhat and DAG (which I have done on a few C4 boxes a while back). At some point, due to the EPEL requirement, yum update will quit working. If you happen to have used a DAG package that is incompatible at a low level with EPEL's package of the same program, you have work to do.
Noting repository incompatibilities is a user issue; arguing/debating the merits of the repos and trying to collaborate is, as you have correctly noted, a developer issue.