On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 12:26 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
The only parts where this matters are those where there is
incompatible
duplication within the fedora repository. What I specifically fail to
understand is why those packages that have been duplicated could not have
been done in a way that the same contents would be acceptable in both
repositories. Why, for example, couldn't the changes you say fedora needs
as a dependency for openoffice be included in the jpackage repository for
that fedora release and maintained as exact copies?
Overlapping repos are fundamentally broken, period. We've had long flamewars
in the past about how ATrpms freely replaces Fedora packages making an
unsupportable mess. Why are we allowing JPackage to pull the same crap?
Fedora must not make any consessions to allowing JPackage to maintain
overlapping packages in their repos. Because it is brain damaged. Period.
This goes for all external repos, not just JPackage.