On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 20:32 +0100, Heiko Adams wrote: > Am Sonntag, den 09.12.2007, 21:27 +0200 schrieb Axel Thimm: > > ... > > I'll just repeat myself: If the packagers don't cooperate no technical > > solution will be able to really cover compatibilty problems. You'll > > paper over some of them and create a false feeling that you have > > mastered the compatibility problem and still wonder later why it > > doesn't work. I've seen dozen of such false bug reports which I call > > "partial/selective enabling of repos". Google the last term and you > > find many bad examples of such "solutions". > IMHO the best solution would be if CentOS would ship its repo-files > preconfigured for yum-priorities plugin and the priorities plugin for > yum by default. This would prevent that 3rd party repos to override > CentOS base packages. ---- which of course flies in the face of their commitment to staying true to upstream. Ultimately, the user has to take responsibility for their own boxen. Craig