Les Mikesell napsal(a): >> >> Correct, you would think Fedora took care of this, right ? But there >> is no interest for Fedora to take care of that because they want to >> be the only repository. It is not something they have an incentive >> for to fix. >> >> That is exactly the problem. The repotag would be a workaround (and a >> convenient one for users) but the real changes need to be in yum or >> somewhere else. And Fedora does not care, so RHEL will not have it. >> >> I have warned for this on the Feodra mailinglist years ago. There >> just is no interest to have the diversity of more than one repository. > > What value does diversity add when the end user can't select which one > he wants or load all of them? I understand the scenario where a > single repository has a policy that prohibits certain packages from > being included, but the only conflicts in those cases should be where > an incomplete version is packaged in one place under the same name as > the full version in a place with a different policy. The more common > case would just be additional packages or packages with different names. > > From an end-user viewpoint, I can't see why anyone would want to > maintain a potentially-conflicting package of something that can be > freely distributed and keep it in an isolated repository, especially > without any mechanism to control which will be installed. Can you > explain the reason anyone would want to have diversity instead of a > single maintainer per package and the same packages in all > repositories whose policies find them acceptable? > Diversity adds a lot of value. If EPEL will be only repo nobody on RHEL workstation can see/listen MP3, WMA, DVD playing, because of interesting US software patent and millenium act law. -- Petr Klíma e-mail: qaxi at seznam.cz