On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 08:15:07PM -0500, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Friday 07 December 2007, Karanbir Singh wrote: > > I'd be happy to host the rest of this conversation in > > centos-devel@xxxxxxxxxx - which might actually have more people > > watching who play a role in these situations ? > > There is one point that belongs in the user CentOS list (and not on > centos-devel) that is relevant to this discussion. And, Johnny, I know it > isn't a CentOS issue; it is a CentOS user's issue, however, and this is the > only post on this subject I plan to make. > > If a CentOS user wants KDE-Redhat on CentOS, then that user will be using EPEL > (KDE-Redhat now requires it). > > The incompatibility between EPEL and, say, DAG, means you no longer can mix > KDE-Redhat and DAG (which I have done on a few C4 boxes a while back). At > some point, due to the EPEL requirement, yum update will quit working. If > you happen to have used a DAG package that is incompatible at a low level > with EPEL's package of the same program, you have work to do. In that case you should ask the kde-redhat developers (Rex and friends, and Rex is even on this list I think) to not create such a dependency. It is better to have some redundancy to allow the repo to be used with other repos than to bundle it with only one and outcast the other combinations. Given that *probably* the needed parts are maintained by Rex himself in Fedora/EPEL anyway that would be not an issue anyway (noone will blame the other of incompatible/forked/stolen work - it's the same packager(s)). > Noting repository incompatibilities is a user issue; arguing/debating the > merits of the repos and trying to collaborate is, as you have correctly > noted, a developer issue. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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