Re: Re: Mixing RPMforge and EPEL (Was: EPEL repo)

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Dag Wieers wrote:

You may argue that that is a good thing. But Fedora is a different beast than RHEL. People may want stable packages, or current packages and a single repository (with the tools we have today) cannot provide this.

But people may want _both_ the stable package and the current package on the same machine at the same time. Having a hint of the difference barely visible in the package name doesn't help a bit.

Besides, it punishes people who did not have an alternative back when Fedora Extras refused to do RHEL packages and only had RPMforge to fall back on.

At least that's my point of view.

I think you are making too much out of name differences for things that can clobber each other and not enough about ways to let the different things co-exist - on the same machines if you want them, or to let users choose which they want. If two same-named packages can conflict, someone did something wrong and the issue shouldn't be about who did it but how to avoid it.


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