[CentOS] Re: are RPMForge and EPEL compatible?

Fri Dec 7 22:58:30 UTC 2007
Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>

Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 02:21:20PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> But that doesn't mean that it is incompatible. If repo X ships a
> rather non-enabled version of a package foo and repo Y an enhanched
> one with more options turned on or whatever, if repo X and repo Y had
> a compatibility agreement them Y's foo would not wreck havoc on an X
> system and vice versa.
> 
> We're thinking of shipping several "different" packages in otherwise
> compatible subrepos, so there is a distinction between different and
> incompatible.
> 
> Bottom line once again: It's about people working or not together even
> in different repos. And I know that if there is a compatibility issue
> in say KB, Dag, Dries, ... or ATrpms that I can contact the other repo
> and fix a solution (heck most of us even share the same bugzilla
> instance). That's certainly not the case with EPEL. 

I'd be happy to host the rest of this conversation in
centos-devel at centos.org  - which might actually have more people
watching who play a role in these situations ?

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