On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 11:08:49PM +0200, Axel Thimm wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 12:15:31PM -0700, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > > I know EPEL acknowledged that the whole repo-conflicts thing is an > > issue that needed to be addressed... as has been rehashed many times, > > they just didn't like repotags. > > The history goes as follows: > > o Dag suggests repotags, Axel back them up > o _very_ long discussion about repotags > o repotags get killed by epel, lots of pain for the repos that did > carry repotags (at least for ATrpms it was a painful transition) > o Many repo maintainers and users complain about epel's lack of > cooperation > o epel suddenly reconsiders > > So after the fact everyone can claim anything. The important thing is > how did epel (or better said certain key persons in there) deal with > it when they did not see the political ramifications they inflicted > upon themselves? I understand how a lot of it "went down" (saw the meetings and am on the lists as well), I'm just wondering if that aside (I know, hard to do :), could there feasibly be an RPM-based solution to this that would make repo-tags obsolete? Ray