Summary of the 2008-04-08 Packaging Committee meeting

[Les Mikesell]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
> 
>>
>> Then just admit that the duplication causes more harm than good and 
>> make the user set up his own yum configuration if pointing to jpackage 
>> is a problem for you.  Do the same with openoffice if you can't 
>> support it without badly duplicating packages with better upstreams.  
>> What's the point of making things worse for your users?
> 
> Repository conflicts have always existed. As long as there is more than 
> one repository that is not perfectly complimentary, that is just a fact 
> of life. We just learn to work with it in a way we can.

But the way we work around that problem is to not use the one that 
conflicts.  I think you are suggesting not using fedora unless you 
provide a straightforward exclusion method for the conflicting packages. 
  is that really what you want people to do?

> If that doesn't 
> suit you, do your own thing instead. Good luck.

Everyone doing their own thing is the problem here.  Encouraging it is 
absolutely the wrong thing.

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   Les Mikesell
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