Rex Dieter wrote:
>> I don't see why
>> a particular package couldn't be served from more than one repository.
>> Is there some rule about that?
>
> Nope. As a matter of fact, this sort of thing is likely when mixing repos,
> and is why a commitment to collaboration is essential.
The point is that as an end user, I want a sensible way to deal with
multiple repositories that _don't_ collaborate. After all, if everyone
agreed on policies we wouldn't need any third party repositories at all.
The reason I want something from somewhere else may be precisely
because they do things differently. In fact, I'd love to see an
optional repository that could be used from Centos whose policy was
basically that packages had been released in fedora for at least a month
with no system-crashing bugs reported against it or dependencies.
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