Les Mikesell wrote: > Dag Wieers wrote: > >> You may argue that that is a good thing. But Fedora is a different >> beast than RHEL. People may want stable packages, or current packages >> and a single repository (with the tools we have today) cannot provide >> this. > > But people may want _both_ the stable package and the current package on > the same machine at the same time. Having a hint of the difference > barely visible in the package name doesn't help a bit. I cannot see how it is possible to install both the stable package and current package. > >> Besides, it punishes people who did not have an alternative back when >> Fedora Extras refused to do RHEL packages and only had RPMforge to >> fall back on. >> >> At least that's my point of view. > > I think you are making too much out of name differences for things that > can clobber each other and not enough about ways to let the different > things co-exist - on the same machines if you want them, or to let users > choose which they want. If two same-named packages can conflict, > someone did something wrong and the issue shouldn't be about who did it > but how to avoid it. > > I disagree. If I was going to roll my own packages in my own repository to overrule the OS repositories, tagging my packages would be essential.