Rahul Sundaram wrote:
I didn't blame anyone. Just stated facts.
Same here. No conflicts existed until fedora packagers duplicated
packages that already existed in well-known repositories and forked
them instead of mirroring.
A cross distribution package repository is always going to be different
from a distribution specific repository.
I don't see how that is relevant, given that the pre-existing
repositories mostly/all have added version-specific instances for each
fedora release.
Which still doesn't explain why any needed package that existed
elsewhere couldn't be maintained identically to eliminate the conflict
issue. Maybe there's a case of that somewhere but I'm not convinced
it would have been a problem in general. Would jpackage really have
refused to have the same maintainer make sure common packages were
always identical?
It is impossible to do that. Fedora has its own release cycle, licensing
policies and packaging guidelines. The package dependencies will differ
in many cases based on all of these.
Could you share some amusing anecdotes about how the existing
repositories refused to make these changed versions available when you
tried to provide them to maintain complete compatibility?
Factor 2 is that _some_ of the packages from the 3rd party repos were
forked into potentially conflicting versions that may cause problems
with the original, while factor 1 ensures that you can't get all of
the packages you are likely to need without them. And a side effect
seems to be that the old repos are no longer particularly interested
in supporting fedora.
That's not the real reason again as explained to you earlier.
The reason really doesn't matter. The effect and problems do.
If you can't address the effects of both factors at once, I guess
there really isn't anything else to say.
If you keep ignoring what is being said to you, there is no point
indeed. Move on.
There's been nothing to ignore - I haven't heard any plan to improve the
situation.
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