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.