On 18 May 2004 18:36:11 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On May 18, 2004, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > The bottom line is disttags bring a lot of benefits as can bee seen in > > their implementation in the wild, have caused no harm, and come at > > very little expense. > > I don't see benefits for the core proper, and I do see problems. So > it's not as clear-cut as you say. The reality of add-on repositories > is quite different because their goal is to use the same package on > multiple OSs. Issuing updates doesn't work that way. Disttags aren't as flexible as advertized, unless you create an ugly hierarchy such as rh73 < rh80 < rhfc1 < rhfc2 and so on. And that doesn't include Red Hat Enterprise Linux yet.
