On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 10:15:56PM -0300, Horst H. von Brand wrote: > 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? W/o wanting to sound like the distro expert of the week I would say all major 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. No, that's not the reason. And none of the Debian/Ubuntu/SuSE/Mandriva have "everything is official" policies, perhaps some smaller distributions do. > > 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'm referring to times where there were no official repos. And asking/coordinating is what I'm after, so we are probably on the same side even if you don't know it. > [...] > > > 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. You missed the "again" part. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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