Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Michael Schwendt wrote: > > How does that answer my question? Let me repeat. I've asked what > > policy it is that "forced a horribly fractured 3rd party repository > > situation"? I'm not aware of any such policy. > All I can say is that with Ubuntu you can pick vendor drivers and Sun > Java 1.5 from the software management tool and you almost never have > to worry about conflicts among packages from the different > repositories. I've repeatedly requested these things in fedora and > been repeatedly told it wasn't going to happen. What the people handling non-Fedora repositories do (or fail to do) is not Fedora's fault. Go talk to them. Help clarify the "interface" they have to keep to be able to interoperate cleanly with Fedora. Etc. Complaining here won't do any good. Fedora's policies are (in large part) dictated by US (and other) laws. If other distributions believe that they are inmune to that because of geographical or other reasons, it's their risk-taking (And I for one like the "no risk" policy of Fedora better than fearing that some fine day my distribution becomes non viable because it is being accused of large-scale "software piracy". Remember Linux is what it is (at least in part) because of the fear around the USL-BSDI-UCB lawsuits). > > There simply is not enough man-power > > to spend additional time on coordinating between 3rd party packagers. If somebody is willing to do the work, I'm certainly not going to stand in the way. It is much more (and harder) work than what it superficially looks like, that is all. > That's something that potential users have to take into account when > choosing the distro they are going run. Right. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile 2340000 Fax: +56 32 2797513 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
