[CentOS] Re: are RPMForge and EPEL compatible?

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri Dec 7 00:18:30 UTC 2007


Axel Thimm wrote:
> 
> No *technical* solution will ever solve this. Even the best package
> manager in the world cooking coffee in its idle time will not solve
> packagers not talking to each other and creating conflicting and
> incompatible packages. And we've tried talking and coordinating, it's
> the EPEL side of the world that decides to play the Highlander theme
> again ("there can only be one").

But that's not the problem that needs to be solved.  We want/need 
incompatible versions of the same things to be available in different 
repos and for different reasons.  What's missing is a mechanism to 
exclude conflicting groups when updating or to permit them to co-exist 
in the same machine by installing under different paths.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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