On Mon, 11 Apr 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 4/11/2011 4:04 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> >> I must be missing something here. If it had been someone I didn't know, >> that's one thing, but Dag's been contributing to Linux as a whole for a >> lotta years, and his site is a major repository. > > Heh, I suppose we could have approximately the same conversion about > getting all the stuff in various 3rd party rpm repositories coordinated > so they never cause conflicts during updates. Or maybe we have... We have :-) When the Fedora project started there was a big discussion. There was no interest in doing RHEL packages together with RPMForge back then, the Fedora project then saw this additional task a risk to their new Fedora Extras repository. 4 years after that they did start EPEL, but too much conflicts for us to even attempt to fix any issues. And here we are :-/ -- -- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- dagit linux solutions, info at dagit.net, http://dagit.net/ [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]