Am Samstag, den 31.12.2005, 17:37 -0600 schrieb Chris Adams: > Once upon a time, John Ellson <ellson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: > > However, I doubt that overlaps can be completely eliminated, or that > > it is even desirable to completely eliminate them, so I think it is > > more important to have a clear mechanism to allow the user to control > > the default choice, and to be able to override it if desired. > > The best thing would be for the third-party repos to be split into > overlapping and non-overlapping. And then merge the non-overlapping stuff in one 3rd party community repo where the repo-maintainers work together instead of against each other. Okay, RPMforge might have other goals (see the mail from Jeff Pitman in this thread) so this probably won't fit (but I still wish RPMforge all the best with their approach). But if livna, atrpms and freshrpms all mostly use the "don't replace packages from Core or Extras" approach it might be a good time do forget about old flamewars ^w discussions an try to work together from now on. Disclaimer for those who don't know: I maintain several packages in Livna. /me wonders if he should abort writing this message. /me clicks "Send-Button" and hides -- Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
