On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 15:12, Andy Green wrote:
There is one potential problem with Extras AIUI -- it does not offer
Redhat's idea of Forbidden Fruits like mplayer.
Considering the realities of being Redhat and having VC money that's
probably a reasonable situation. However AIUI Extras will not cooperate
with the Dag/RPMforge repos for example, which do offer mplayer, about
packaging decisions and conventions. Therefore mixing packages from
Extras and third-party repos potentially will generate conflicts in
library names and so on. (Of course one can say the same about all
non-Fedora repos, except there is a willingness to cooperate on
conventions amongst some other repos as shown by the RPMforge axis).
Please correct me if I have the wrong idea, but that is my understanding
and is so something to consider about taking packages from Extras.
I think the things at
http://rpm.livna.org are built assuming that
you will also be using the fedora core and extras repositiories,
(and in fact won't work otherwise) where many of the other third
party repositories are still trying to maintain backwards
compatibility for their pre-fedora users that may still be doing
version upgrades.
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Les Mikesell
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