Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote:
>
> RPMRepo is the best proof that collaboration is close to impossible.
Collaboration isn't exactly the point - in fact the differences are a good
thing. There are legitimate reasons (besides the obvious differences of
opinions) for incompatibly different versions of things to exist and to be
wanted on different machines. The problem is not so much that these differences
exist, but that the potential users (A) don't have a good way to know what the
differences are and why they might want one version over another, and (B) the
distro tools are not good at all at maintaining updates from a bunch of
different repositories.
> And ElRepo is the best proof that other small repos could arise, and
> they have a reason to exist.
>
> But all this is on the "expenses" (not pecuniary, but *nervous*) of
> the end user, who will get confused and who might also experience
> system breakage. (No, priorities don't fix everything that easily.)
Exactly - but it's not the repo's fault that your system is easily broken. It
is that the system was designed to only give you one choice and can't even track
where a package came from to get updates only from the same place. But it was
unrealistic to ever believe that one choice would be enough, particularly when
the base repository has policies that dictate what can be there.
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Les Mikesell
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