On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
I consider this a bug, as the SCL's should be self-contained. We'd need to see if this occurs upstream as well, and then file a bug there if so.
There's really a bigger issue of how EPEL is supposed to fit in the world of 'other' repositories. What should happen when centosplus/extras has a same-named package? Other 3rd parties?
Then you have to figure it out ... it happens. Many different repos have packages with the same name. If the repos don't play nicely with each other, well then that is their fault. Garbage in / Garbage out.
The typical scenario is that EPEL doesn't initially have a package so you have to get it from some other repository. Then EPEL adds it, but with different build/configuration options so every time the updates leapfrog your system breaks. Is this really not a solvable problem? Should we just expect EPEL to wantonly clobber anything, including Centosplus/extras?