On 1/3/06, Michael A. Peters <mpeters(a)mac.com> wrote:
On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 20:18 -0800, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 02 January 2006 18:12, Warren Togami wrote:
>
> I'm not saying Fedora should promote arbitrary mixes of 3rd-party
> repositories, just that there aren't really any good reasons not to cooperate
> with them, at least on some level. If repository X needs an updated libfoo to
> build application bar that tons of users want, why not update Core's libfoo?
One needs to be extremely cautious about updating a library in a live
distro. I know it happens sometimes in Extras - but that is wrong too
imho (unless they provide a compat package for the old version as well).
I doubt I am going to end the thread, but I hope to.
There are two sets of users: 1) users that do not want Core updated,
and 2) users that *do* want Core updated.
Continuing to debate about why turns into a "emacs vs vi" debate.
Seriously. Fedora should be agnostic as to either of these groups in
any obvious, active endeavor. Of course, micro-steps need to be made
on a per-package basis as reported via Bugzilla--when the maintainer
finds it as an acceptable change. Otherwise, we work around them.
And a final comment to the those users in #1: do not use repos that cater to #2.
That's it.
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-jeff