> But it's not as big of a deal, imho, as the Fedora.us wiki makes it > sound to be. > > You can specifically exclude packages from one or the other - or use a > really nify package manager called smart (it's available from dag I > believe) and set priority - as in freshrpms could have a priority of 0, > fedora extras/livna could have a priority of 1, base OS could have a > priority of 3, updates-released could have a priority of 4. > > In that way - most freshrpms conflists with Fedora.us would instantly > be eliminate. Now you might have problems the other way (wanting to > install a freshrpms package for which a fedora extras dependency isn't > good enough) but in those cases, you could individually set the > priority of the freshrpms version of the package to higher than Fedora > Extras. > > Seriously - take a look at smart - it solves a LOT of the repo mixing > issues. And really - the issues are (imho) blown out of proportion. > Yes, some exist. I disagree that it solves the problems. It shoves them back on the user to sort out via a priority field that functions more or less like a super-epoch. A solution is to create compatibility. -sv