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.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com