On Fri, 20 May 2005, Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: William Warren <hescominsoon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > considering the FUD fedora talks about mixing repositories.
>
> It's not FUD, it's an issue with Debian as well.
The FUD is related to the fact that fedora.us was never interested in
working with existing repositories. With Fedora Extras it didn't much
improve in the sense that the only way they listen is if you're part of
the team and the only way to be part of the team is to sign legal papers.
So they introduced (and are introducing) stuff that breaks my stuff and
they don't care.
And it wouldn't even help as they're not doing RHEL packages and fork for
different distributions. They actually only support the latest Fedora
release and the previous Fedora release. So tough luck if you want RHEL2,
RHEL3 (and when Fedora 5 is released RHEL4 packages from Fedora
Extras probably don't build because of changes).
So you're basicly mixing a philosophy (Fedora Core development, not
looking back) and the philosophy that says, keep compatibility with older
distributions, and only fork when maintaining a single SPEC file is more
costly than forking.
It's true that RPMforge does not offer any more than the packages and the
ability to help out by reporting problems. So if you have problems with
any of the packages, report it, otherwise we can't help.
BTW Much of the rest of your email was pretty incorrect about the history
of Fedora and existing repositories. But I guess you weren't around back
then :)
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