Re: mplayer repository for CentOS

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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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