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 ? -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq