On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 08:32:57PM +0100, Heiko Adams wrote: > Am Sonntag, den 09.12.2007, 21:27 +0200 schrieb Axel Thimm: > > ... > > I'll just repeat myself: If the packagers don't cooperate no technical > > solution will be able to really cover compatibilty problems. You'll > > paper over some of them and create a false feeling that you have > > mastered the compatibility problem and still wonder later why it > > doesn't work. I've seen dozen of such false bug reports which I call > > "partial/selective enabling of repos". Google the last term and you > > find many bad examples of such "solutions". > IMHO the best solution would be if CentOS would ship its repo-files > preconfigured for yum-priorities plugin and the priorities plugin for > yum by default. This would prevent that 3rd party repos to override > CentOS base packages. But what does that have to do with 3rd party repos A and B supporting CentOS but being incompatible towards each other? This is not about 3rd party repos replacing a vendor package, which is a different policy issue altogether (and which is best solved by different offerings on the server side anyway). -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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