can dag & karanbir sort of sum up this thread as to how list members can work together on improving all the additional non-redhat-originated packages from rpmforge,etc.
As for radu-cristian, relax bro. As for others (myself included), lets all chill out. this thread should not
evolve into personal attacks. venting happens once awhile. so lets all work together to keep making centos a good cholce for users.
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From: Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Wednesday, July 1, 2009 8:42:02 AM Subject: Re: [CentOS] Dag's comment at linuxtag
Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote:
RPMRepo is the best proof that collaboration is close to impossible.
Collaboration isn't exactly the point - in fact the differences are a good thing. There are legitimate reasons (besides the obvious differences of opinions) for incompatibly different versions of things to exist and to be wanted on different machines. The problem is not so much that these differences
exist, but that the potential users (A) don't have a good way to know what the differences are and why they might want one version over another, and (B) the distro tools are not good at all at maintaining updates from a bunch of different repositories.
And ElRepo is the best proof that other small repos could arise, and they have a reason to exist.
But all this is on the "expenses" (not pecuniary, but *nervous*) of the end user, who will get confused and who might also experience system breakage. (No, priorities don't fix everything that easily.)