Relationship to existing 3rd party repos/CentOS/SL?

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Thu Apr 19 14:55:41 UTC 2007


Dag Wieers wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Rex Dieter wrote:
> 
>> Dag Wieers wrote:
>>
>>> Both RPMforge and EPEL provide clamav packages. (RPMforge was providing 
>>> them long before Fedora introduced them, but that's just history). Sadly 
>>> Fedora introduced them completely different. Some subpackages are 
>>> different in aim and content.
>> An unfortunate circumstance.  Now, are you willing to work together to
>> fix the incompatibilities?  This "working together" idea is a 2-way
>> street you know. :)
> 
> Sure. But this was just one of the many examples.

Good, keep 'em coming!  I'd much rather help work on getting stuff like
this fixed, than to unproductively rehash the unfortunate history of
getting to this predicament.  :)

-- Rex




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