On Wednesday 18 October 2006 12:14, Christopher Stone wrote: > The reason it was closed was because Seth totally misunderstood what > the RFE was trying to accomplish. Set thought that we were trying to > make it impossible or extremely difficult for 3rd parth repos. to > override base packages when the opposite is true. We want to make it > easy for them to do this, but we want the user to have to take an > extra step in order to enable them to do this. And this extra step > should warn the user about the consequences of enabling this. > > We are *trying* to protect unknowning and unsuspecting users here. Unknowing and unsuspecting users will become frightening and confused when the repo they added doesn't work like the rest of the repos they have. -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora
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