On 12/29/05, Brian Long <brilong@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Nope. I don't know that it's up to me or the Fedora project to contact > each third-party repo maintainer when Fedora implements a change. I'm > asking Fedora to consider a change. And I'm telling you...since you used atrpms and freshrpms as the motivating example.. you should go out and contact those maintainers about how they feel about YOUR idea to make this default. Shoving a new default into Core tool configs that is meant as a constraint on interaction with 3rd party repos is ill-advised without the input from the maintainers of those repos. For you to suggest that the 3rd party maintainer's opinion doesn't hold significant weight shows an absolute lack of understanding of the history of this project's relationship with 3rd party maintainers. >If Fedora decides to implement that > change for the "protection" of their users and repos, the third party > repos would shoot themselves in the foot if they started scripting > around the protection! IMHO, they would lose credibility. Considering that you are having problems with repos that already feel they have a good reason to overwrite Core packaging decisions... i think you making too many damned assumptions about what 3rd party maintainers think. I don't care how many users think protectbase on by default is a good idea. If 90% of the users are like you and trying to protect themselves against atrpm overwrites.. you better make damn sure that atrpms is going to respect protectbase's default status. We aren't solving any problems by turning this on by default unless the 3rd party maintainers that most users have problems with agree to respect the config. As an mythtv atrpms package user, i would think you would want to make sure Axel was behind this idea. In fact I say any user of mythtv packages from atrpms loses credibility in this discussion if they do not seek out Axel's opinion on that matter. The last thing you want as a user of any atrpms packages is MORE hostibility between this project and atrpms... because its just going to end up making it more difficult for you as the user. -jef -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
