Re: Yum repros wanted

[Temlakos <temlakos gmail com>]

Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:04:59 -0400, Temlakos wrote:
>
>
> > Sean O Sullivan wrote:
> >
> > > The more repo's you want, the more conflicts and dependancy issues you 
> > > will have - it is not a good idea to add every repo you can find.
> > >
> > > Personally, base/updated-released/extras, then dag and freshrpms are 
> > > very reliable I find. atrpms i usually fine, although wouldn't use for a 
> > > server. Other than that wouldn't touch many others - especially not 
> > > livna ( http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/FAQ.php#D )
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Sean
> >
> > Are you sure about that? The way I heard it, livna and extras were part 
> > of the same mold. Now I'll let Dag and Axel speak for themselves, but 
> > the impression I got from following the link you gave is that they 
> > wouldn't even want you to use extras, just because the extras 
> > maintainers won't "play nice" with them.
>
>
> What solution could you think of?

Well, /somebody/ has to meet the other one halfway! All that I see on 
the extras site is that they want us to encourage the /developers/ of 
the applications or other packages involved to /submit their packages to 
extras/ for inclusion. Or they encourage /us/ to submit the packages to 
extras. /Not one word/ do they speak about coordinating their efforts 
with those of men like Dag and Axel.

I'd go along with using extras exclusively, except for one thing: Extras 
never has had the selection that Dag and Axel have had. The head of 
extras can speak for himself, of course, but the impression I have is 
that the "quality control" process even to /get/ a package into extras 
takes longer than the typical release cycle of Fedora.

Extras did surprise me when, the first time I configured my system (back 
in FC3) to use extras, I got twenty-two updates of packages (like 
anjuta) that I had installed from dag or at-stable or freshrpms. So 
their selection is moving up. I'd like to see the process move a bit 
faster, that's all.

In the meantime--well, now that I have smart, I can have the additional 
selection of dag or at-stable without "breaking" a package that the 
"alternatives" conflict with.

Temlakos