On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:40:49AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote:
OTOH, Dag is in a funny position: he's the main maintainer of RPMforge, which has 2 main issues: (1) It's broken, at least partially. Try install audacious for one. (2) It's incompatible with EPEL. Try install MPlayer and VLC with EPEL enabled.
I don't like this situation either, but when 2 repositories have conflicts, shouldn't the one that has been serving people longer have some consideration by the newer players? That is, shouldn't EPEL work to avoid conflicts with pre-existing, well known repositories?
Attempts were made, failed for various reasons and the whole thing can be read about in various mailing list archives and/or IRC logs...
Perhaps new attempts could be made? As for me, I'm more comfortable with EPEL and its Fedora-vetted packages and use rpmforge only for a few things. The two are definitely *not* compatible. :-)
Ray