--- Lamar Owen lowen@pari.edu wrote:
But it is rude and off-base, in my opinion, to call a dedicated third-party packager 'cuckoo' simply because they do it differently, or because they HAVE to replace large parts of the core distribution to get their packages to work. The CentOS base package set is showing its age, as are all other RHEL4 rebuilds, and RHEL4 itself; this is one of the downsides to using an 'Enterprise' Linux.
Not cuckoo repos, don't misquote me- THEIR DEVELOPERS ARE LIVING IN A CUCKOO WORLD & they do not respond to feedback nor work with other developers. This is why you have apt, apt-devel and synaptic in all the repos.
Now, as to why someone would want to 'Fedorize' their CentOS rather than just run Fedora, well, there are some instances where such a thing is useful. Again, I use the Kstars example; one might say 'well, why not just run Fedora' to which I would answer 'I don't want to completely reinstall machines every six months; besides, KDE-RedHat exists and works fine, and I get the base stability of the CentOS kernel and glibc, and I then can leverage my standardization on CentOS 4 for all my servers'. I have been on the Fedora roller-coaster, and I don't like it. Although I may have to deal with the CentOS roller coaster (since I will probably upgrade to CentOS 5 once such a beast is in the pipeline, because the preview in FC5 of what is likely to be in RHEL 5 is compelling for upgrade, at least on desktops), at least that roller coaster is on a longer cycle.
You cannot have your cake and eat it. What will happen when the stuff in the Fedoralized repo begins to churn out FC5 stuff? If you want fedora stick to fedora. If you want a stable enterprise distro go for RHEL/CentOS.
Have you run wine/winetools from winehq.com versus the fedoralized one? Which one works and which one doesn't?
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