Axel Thimm wrote:
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 04:58:19PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
Axel Thimm wrote:
I don't know enough about repotags to understand why everyone needs
them. Can't any repotag be distinguished from no repotag? Why is
there any need for cooperation beyond not choosing the same tag or lack
thereof?
All the repotags request was about is to idntify epel packages as such
with a simple tag in the file name, no more, no less. And that already
died with an awful sound.
If everyone else has added unique repo tags, isn't the lack of a tag an
equally unique identifier? I'm missing the point of argument here.
So you want to reiterate the whole epel-devel repotag fiasco here
argument by argument?
No, I want to understand the effect on an end user when only one repo
refuses to add a unique tag. I don't want to fight the war - I want to
know which way to duck.
The argument was that once a repo drops the
repotag and foo-1.2.3-4 conflicts with foo-2.0.0-1.blahrepo the
typical user assumes the former to belong to the distro proper and the
latter to be the one causing the conflict.
I don't get it. What does the potential to drop a tag have to do with a
tag not existing in the first place?
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Les Mikesell
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