Les Mikesell wrote:
Feizhou wrote:
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.
How many kernel packages do you have installed? All it takes is to not
write the same-named file in the same place as the other package. In
some cases there are practical problems where a service needs to listen
on a default port and you can't run 2 at once, or the init script is
expected to live in a certain place so we'd need a creative solution,
but most files could just have their own unique path and you'd pick the
one you want with your PATH setting - something well understood decades
ago.
ROTFL. Have you ever noticed that the kernel packages all contain files
that have different names from other packages?
Besides the kernel packages, none of the others do.
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.
But the tags are in an inconvenient position to control anything. How
do you ensure that you'll get your copies if any other repo adds a newer
release? Normally you'd want updates to float to the latest.
I will very well shut out similarly named packages in other third-party
repos in the yum configuration.
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