On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 02:21:20PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > Florin Andrei wrote: > >> OTOH, yes, it would be so nice if all repos would be 100% compatible with >> each other. :-) > > No it wouldn't because the reason you install something from a 3rd party > repo may be precisely because its differences.
But that doesn't mean that it is incompatible. If repo X ships a rather non-enabled version of a package foo and repo Y an enhanched one with more options turned on or whatever, if repo X and repo Y had a compatibility agreement them Y's foo would not wreck havoc on an X system and vice versa. We're thinking of shipping several "different" packages in otherwise compatible subrepos, so there is a distinction between different and incompatible. Bottom line once again: It's about people working or not together even in different repos. And I know that if there is a compatibility issue in say KB, Dag, Dries, ... or ATrpms that I can contact the other repo and fix a solution (heck most of us even share the same bugzilla instance). That's certainly not the case with EPEL. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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