On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 12:52:03PM -0500, Richard June wrote:
> Yes, but choose based on what criteria? security, stability and
> functionality is what you check for.
>
> The argument of some (all?) repos carrying updates to the vendor repo
> is almost exclusively used with the background of stability.
Ok, let's drop stability for a minute. how's this for a good
reason to be
*VERY* wary of upgrading vendor pkgs.
If you use FC1 and upgrade to KDE 3.2, any program which uses arts for audio
output becomes somewhat broken. IIRC it wasn't anything too major like it
wouldn't run, just it wouldn't run in KDE.
You probably know about the kde-redhat project, so have a look and see
how they solved this.
And these repos are usually the ones that cause breakage with the
vendors pkgs and with other vendor compatible repos. before I knew
better I used one of said repos. I confused the hell out of poor
yum.
Well, all repos claim to be compatible to the vendor, it would be moot
to announce an FC1 non-FC1 compatible repo ...
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