Agressive FUD by Fedora contributor (was: [Bug 210775])

[seth vidal]

On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 19:19 -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 06:15:37PM -0500, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> > Well, forgive my ignorance here, but does ATrpms override any FC or FE
> > RPMs? If so, why?
> 
> It strikes me that this is fixable in software whether intentional or not
> by teaching yum that repository 'x' must not contain packages that clash
> with repository 'y' and if they do to skip it for now with a warning.
> 

There's a plugin called 'protectbase' which does just that.

-sv