On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:31:06 -0400, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 09:59:51PM +0000, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote: >> Well, we're not, thankfully, in the same situation as some other distro >> where each third-party repository overlap quite a lot because they >> rebuild, possibly unnecessarily, an entire stack of software. The >> personal repositories I've seen tend to be tightly focused -- Richard >> Jones' mingw porting work, spot's repo for bleeding edge packages that >> rightly are not ready for Fedora proper, etc. >> > But we're going in that direction... For instance, spot's firefox4 repo > has to ship with its own rebuild of nss which, because of other efforts > within Fedora, a lot of packages rely on. > In this case, the other packages depend on this particular rebuild, though? The situation with OBS is that many repositories contain their own, slightly different, versions of the same key packages. The non- orthogonality makes it ... interesting ... to use different third-party repositories at the same time. Not saying it's ideal that the NSS update cannot land in Fedora proper fast enough, but this is partly due to the way the Mozilla developers act as if they're the only customers of their own libraries, and not provide stable APIs/ABIs (see also the updates triggered by xulrunner updates) > As the concept of using third party repositories (both as packagers and > as users) grows, this interdependence will grow. > I agree. Still, it should be kept to a minimum as much as possible. -- Michel Alexandre Salim Fedora Project Contributor: http://fedoraproject.org/ Email: salimma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | GPG key ID: 78884778 Jabber: hircus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx | IRC: hircus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
