That ole Livna Problem/That ole VLC Problem

[Ed Greshko]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>
>> perhaps, but that would violate the fundamental rule that's already
>> been mentioned a number of times here -- don't mix non-fedora repos.
>
> "mentioned here" == a few hundred people understand it - maybe...
Well, it is sort of like customizing your car.  You can go out and buy 
cylinder liners and matching pistons and rings and everything is OK.  
Then you decide to do a bit of street dragging and end up damaging a 
piston.  So you need to change it.  You find one that is from a 
different manufacturer and decide that it is close enough...only to find 
out that performance is now in the toilet and you're burning oil.

You've learned your lesson.  You don't mix and hope the parts match.  Do 
you need to have someone tell you this...or did you know how to work on 
a car before?  If you didn't know...maybe that means you had no business 
trying to work your car yourself to begin with.

I could probably make the analogy sound a bit better if it wasn't so 
late and I got up so early.
>
>> if they forget, and cavalierly start dragging packages out of other
>> repositories sometime down the road, they have no one but themselves
>> to blame.
>
> Can you point to the documentation that explains that? It's broken as 
> designed.
>
I think it is more of a common sense type of thing.  Anyone can start 
their own 3rd party repository.  You or I could start our own.  But it 
is just like any other 3rd party enterprise.  It is not expected, or 
mandated that they work together.  If you think they should...then you 
are operating under a flawed assumption.


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