On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 01:27 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 01:17 -0800, Jarod Wilson wrote: > > Whoops, misread what Thorsten said, I think. I don't think he was advocating > > for mythtv into Extras, he was talking about putting it into another repo. > > What's wrong with the ATrpms version? Is it simply a matter of principle that > > people refuse to use the ATrpms package(s), since ATrpms can/does override > > core packages? A protectbase option seems like an idea solution for that, so > > why dismiss it w/"use a repo that doesn't override"... > > > > The question is, what good is this plugin doing? If you enable a 3rd > party repo, to get something like MythTV, you'll need to get the deps. > If the deps happen to replace core/extras packages, then they do. They > are necessary for the software you are asking to install. Not always. Sometimes the Core package is sufficient, but the third party repo has what looks like a newer release, thus updating the core package when it doesn't need to. How does the end user know the difference? -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
