On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Ned Slider ned@unixmail.co.uk wrote:
Mark - as a general word of advise, next time you have an issue, rather than ranting because something isn't working as you expect and calling people stupid, perhaps you could try describing the problem you are experiencing in a rational manor and provide supporting information. It seems you had already decided it was someone else's fault and were more interested in blaming others than examining your own issues.
This is a generic issue that deserves at least some ranting, although not particularly at you. As long as the distro requires the use of a repository that by policy excludes things that almost everyone needs we are pretty much forced to use 3rd party repositories that almost by definition are uncoordinated in a way that makes their interaction unpredictable and any defensive configuration measures likely to fail. I don't see any possibility of changing this, so what else is there to do but rant?