FC5 and Yum Plugins
Michael A. Peters
mpeters at mac.com
Fri Dec 30 14:00:49 UTC 2005
On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 01:27 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 01:17 -0800, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> > Whoops, misread what Thorsten said, I think. I don't think he was advocating
> > for mythtv into Extras, he was talking about putting it into another repo.
> > What's wrong with the ATrpms version? Is it simply a matter of principle that
> > people refuse to use the ATrpms package(s), since ATrpms can/does override
> > core packages? A protectbase option seems like an idea solution for that, so
> > why dismiss it w/"use a repo that doesn't override"...
> >
>
> The question is, what good is this plugin doing? If you enable a 3rd
> party repo, to get something like MythTV, you'll need to get the deps.
> If the deps happen to replace core/extras packages, then they do. They
> are necessary for the software you are asking to install.
Not always.
Sometimes the Core package is sufficient, but the third party repo has
what looks like a newer release, thus updating the core package when it
doesn't need to.
How does the end user know the difference?
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