On 1/2/06, Florin Andrei <florin andrei myip org> wrote:
On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 05:24 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
When users choose to use third party repositories they are in many cases
not aware that they are not just adding packages but also replacing
existing ones in their system which might be a divergence they desire.
The discussions initiated by one such user along with various posting in
fedora forum, user lists and irc channel is enough proof that the
problem exists.
(Offtopic: is anyone else's mail not picking up Rahul's list postings?
I've seen several responses to Rahul's email, however I haven't
received any from Rahul since 12/27 from fedora-devel. Odd...)
This is currently the single most important problem with package
repositories.
See Warren's posting: Core/Extras has no obligation to help the situation.