Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Jonas Karlsson wrote:
Ok back on track (3rd party repositories) It's way over time to have
guys like livna, freshrpms, rpmforge and atrpms etc start a
collective, collaborative and functional repository (for the greater
good). There are many guys doing the same work that the other one
already has done, and some times one repository does not work, the
next time it's the other way around. Just start one big community 3rd
party repository, define rules, let everyone contribute and mirror it.
Now that we finally are past Core and Extras and it is merged into
one. The next step shold be to clean up the above described mess that
is doing harm to the Fedora users and the general community by
creating confusion and eventually breaks your installation. So please
guys keep up the good work, but do it together!
There is some ongoing efforts on consolidating some of the popular
third party repositories. I guess they have been waiting to get off
the ground solidly before announcing their efforts.
Keep in mind there is always going to be other third party
repositories for Fedora. Popular distributions tend to attract people
with different policies. A number of Fedora contributors have their
own repositories because they haven't had the time to work through
package reviews, licensing etc. There are tools like yum priorities
plugin which can help you deal with them if you really need to mix
these repositories.
Rahul
This is good news and might shed some light on the current situation. Do
you know if there is a timeframe or roadmap for this or if it still in
the talks.
The yum priorities plugin is a nice feature, but shouldn't been
necessary in a perfect world (isn't that the direction of Linux? :) )
Other 3rd party repositories will arise and probably start another
confusion in the future. In my opinion I just feel that it is a lot of
waste with time and energy to package the same packages in different
repositories by different people (as it is now) instead of mirroring it
and dividing the workload. And if other 3rd party repositories arise
they do not need to make their own version of the same packages already
present in another repo, only add the packages that is unique. That way
there can be no confusion.
How about a large database where packagers can add their packages that
they have in their repo with no dobblets allowed, everything working
together? And most importantly the links to add the repos in yum.
//Jonas
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