Re: Packages where EPEL beats EL

[Paul Howarth <paul city-fan org>]

On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:51:00 -0600
Chris Adams <cmadams hiwaay net> wrote:

> Once upon a time, Paul Howarth <paul city-fan org> said:
> > Packages requiring perl(SNMP_Session) could add a manual dependency
> > on perl-SNMP_Session; this will pick up the wanted package and
> > won't be fooled by the imposter.
> 
> It is much better to fix the broken package (RHEL's mrtg in this case)
> than break all the other packages (what if a new version of
> SNMP_Session.pm becomse part of some other package?).

Well of course but that's outside of our control and as mentioned
earlier in the thread, it's a known problem but nothing has been done
about it in RHEL.

Paul.