On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 08:55:08PM +0100, Heiko Adams wrote: > Am Sonntag, den 09.12.2007, 21:39 +0200 schrieb Axel Thimm: > > ... > > But what does that have to do with 3rd party repos A and B supporting > > CentOS but being incompatible towards each other? This is not about > > 3rd party repos replacing a vendor package, which is a different > > policy issue altogether (and which is best solved by different > > offerings on the server side anyway). > Clarification: If the priorities plugin for yum would be installed by > default or as an dependency of the 3rd party repo-release-packages it > would be easier to tell the users to use this plugin.
Priorities are evil and endorsing them is the wrong path. See my replyies to Les. > In fact it's nearly impossible for 3rd party repo maintainers to keep > there repo compatible to more than one other 3rd party repo. > So it's the users job to prevent their installed 3rd party repo to > replace other 3rd party repo packages. Priorities and friends are not the answer, they are the second stage of complicating a problem. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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