Re: Fedora Project launches Pre-Extras

[Ken Snider <ksnider flarn com>]

Dag Wieers wrote:

> Removing is
>
> 	fair from a strict principal point of view
> but
> 	without merit from a technical point of view.

I agree that it's necessary, but by the same token the current solution, 
using repo tags, is inadequate anyway.

Ever tried cross-dependency resolution between freshrpms/AT/DAG/Dries? Good 
luck not finding *some* package that you have to exclude/manually update 
because one of the four either incremented the epoch or has a tag that 
supersedes another in some way.

I'm not saying that the above is unnecessary, either - those decisions are 
made for valid reasons, but usually from within the context of *that* repo, 
not from the overall context of the whole, IMHO. There needs to be a way to 
allow repositories to have some sort of meaning - so that Repo A's package 
can't overwrite repo B's package, when said package is part of a larger 
application (example: xmms, xmms-skins, etc), *without* incrementing the 
epoch and subsequently causing *versions* not to matter anymore.

Maybe a 'release' epoch that doesn't supersede version?

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Ken Snider