Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 05:22:43PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > > Josh Boyer schrieb: > > > As for the third party repo aspect of this, that is quite difficult. > > > There are potentially tons of third party repos, which already conflict > > > with each other. We cannot show preference for one or the other. That > > > does not mean that a third party repository maintainer cannot open a > > > bug. It just means that we cannot expect Extras maintainers to go > > > looking for problems in each and every third party repo before updating > > > something. > > > > +1 > I think this is a dangerous attitude. W/o going into ugly details I > believe the reason that Fedora has such a cluttered 3rd party > repository support in comparison to all other distros Which ones? Fedora is /large/ (larger than most), so problems show up more clearly. Some "others" have the policy of "everything is official", so (by definition) there can't be a problem with external stuff. > is just because > of that historic strategic and tactical errors (IMO) that were at the > beginning of the project alienating most 3rd party repositories. I'm not so sure they were errors... it is quite reasonable to ask (and gently nudge/force) for third parties to roll their stuff into the official repos. [...] > I deliberately left off details to not micro-discuss again about repo > foorpms and package bar and baz, I'm just targetting the big picture. Those you should BZ. -- 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 Fax: +56 32 2797513 -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
