Dependencies problems with gimp and abiword

[John Ellson]

Jeff Spaleta wrote:

>On Fri, 04 Jun 2004 10:09:19 -0400, John Ellson <ellson at research.att.com> wrote:
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>>Nils Philippsen wrote:
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>>>Repeat after me: "I will not mix repositories for development and
>>>released versions."
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>>I'm sure thats good advice, but it doesn't explain why abiword
>>fails dependencies against latest fedora-development rpms.
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>Sure it does....
>outside of test release phases... the development branch is a
>radioactive wasteland or packaging inconsistancies.
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Fine.   That would be a more reasonable explanation of the problem with 
abiword.

>If test releases eat babies....
>the development branch outside of testing phases....eats your
>babies...and then sterilizes you so you can't have any more.
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>rule 1)
>Don't mix development repos with release repos.
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OK.  But that isn't the problem.  The problem is with:
    abiword-2.0.6-1.i386.rpm
    libcroco-0.5.1-1.i386.rpm
in today's fedora-development.  

>rule 0)
>Don't use development repo unless you expect packaging problems....
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Understood.

>-jef
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