[CentOS] Re: are RPMForge and EPEL compatible?

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri Dec 7 20:21:20 UTC 2007


Florin Andrei wrote:

> OTOH, yes, it would be so nice if all repos would be 100% compatible 
> with each other. :-)

No it wouldn't because the reason you install something from a 3rd party 
repo may be precisely because its differences. Maybe it would be nice if 
anything incompatible had a different name - or maybe not. You can leave 
everyone else out of this discussion if you think about what should 
happen if you've installed a kernel from the centosplus repo and need 
its features (e.g. one of the added filesystems)to make your system work 
at all.  Now, should some other repo's kernel automatically obsolete and 
replace that one just because it bumps the version number and appears in 
some other active repo first? Should you have to know a lot of obscure 
details and edit obscure files to keep this from happening?

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com





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