On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 14:38, Dag Wieers wrote: > I have a real problem with this thread. It seems as if, according to some, > someone can only be with or against Red Hat. I probably set the wrong tone in pointing out my specific problems as examples, but those are the only ones I can go into detail about (and I thought someone might jump in with a solution for my firewire connection). But, the real issue is planning to avoid the same kind of problems for the next upgrade when the application dependencies are likely to be even more entangled. > I always have a sour taste in my mouth if you have to pick sides, because > that kills healthy rationalizing/critizing and often this has a hidden > agenda attached to it. You probably have as much experience as anyone in trying to improve on the choices RH has offered. Is it ever going to be possible/practical to have a single RPM repository that stays close to the developers versions of applications and be able to use that same repository from a variety of RH/Centos/Fedora base installations? This, of course, would also coincide with what commercial application vendors have always wanted in terms of standard binary APIs, but my agenda is only on the usability side - I'm not interested in selling anything. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx