On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 16:32 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 09:10 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote: > > End users may already be using packages from third-party repos, and may > > have issues if new and incompatible packages of those applications > > subsequently appear in Extras. The Extras packager could save their > > potential users some grief if they took notice of what's already > > available elsewhere and tried to avoid breaking upgrade paths between > > their package and others' (and vice versa). Of course if the third-party > > packager has done something stupid with their package, it doesn't mean > > that the Extras packager should follow suit, but at least as a courtesy > > to users try to avoid breaking things unnecessarily. > > My point was that if the third-party packager has built the package and > put it anywhere _other_ than Core, Extras or Livna, they've already done > something stupid. ... you definitely know, there are plenty of reasons to use 3rd party repos. > Or at least suboptimal. ... as if things were so easy ... ;) Ralf -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
