On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 08:32:57PM +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.
But what does that have to do with 3rd party repos A and B supporting CentOS but being incompatible towards each other? This is not about 3rd party repos replacing a vendor package, which is a different policy issue altogether (and which is best solved by different offerings on the server side anyway).