Fedora Extras is extra

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 22:44 -0500, William M. Quarles wrote:
> Dag Wieers wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> > Apt allows this by use of pinning packages/repositories (a feature that 
> > Yum does not have either) although the configuration if Apt's pinning 
> > functionality is a major disaster and should be part of a developer's hall 
> > of shame all by itself :)
> 
> I've used APT to upgrade packages, and I've read about this "pinning" 
> feature before; what is this "pinning"?
man 5 apt_preferences

In a nutshell: Apt's way to assign priorities to packages and
repositories to certain packages preference over others.
It could be applied to resolve package conflicts. Unfortunately it is
not easy to use and partially broken with apt-rpm.

Ralf