On Dec 6, 2007 12:11 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
Rex Dieter wrote:
I don't see why a particular package couldn't be served from more than one repository. Is there some rule about that?
Nope. As a matter of fact, this sort of thing is likely when mixing repos, and is why a commitment to collaboration is essential.
The point is that as an end user, I want a sensible way to deal with multiple repositories that _don't_ collaborate. After all, if everyone agreed on policies we wouldn't need any third party repositories at all.
Ok the problem field is that you have N different repositories, using M different guidelines, using O different compile flags, and P different filesystem layouts. The best you could possibly do is not have packages at all but keep each package in a dmg file and let the ld fight it out over who gets executed today... but that would seem to be a different OS.
The reason I want something from somewhere else may be precisely because they do things differently. In fact, I'd love to see an optional repository that could be used from Centos whose policy was basically that packages had been released in fedora for at least a month with no system-crashing bugs reported against it or dependencies.
-- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com
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