Les Mikesell wrote:
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.
I cannot see how it is possible to install both the stable package and
current package.
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.
I disagree. If I was going to roll my own packages in my own repository
to overrule the OS repositories, tagging my packages would be essential.
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