On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 20:32 +0100, Heiko Adams wrote:
Am Sonntag, den 09.12.2007, 21:27 +0200 schrieb Axel Thimm:
... I'll just repeat myself: If the packagers don't cooperate no technical solution will be able to really cover compatibilty problems. You'll paper over some of them and create a false feeling that you have mastered the compatibility problem and still wonder later why it doesn't work. I've seen dozen of such false bug reports which I call "partial/selective enabling of repos". Google the last term and you find many bad examples of such "solutions".
IMHO the best solution would be if CentOS would ship its repo-files preconfigured for yum-priorities plugin and the priorities plugin for yum by default. This would prevent that 3rd party repos to override CentOS base packages.
---- which of course flies in the face of their commitment to staying true to upstream.
Ultimately, the user has to take responsibility for their own boxen.
Craig