ATrpms and FC5/RHEL5

Jeff Pitman jeff.pitman at gmail.com
Mon Jan 2 06:51:42 UTC 2006


On 1/2/06, Florin Andrei <florin at andrei.myip.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 15:05 -0800, Michael A. Peters wrote:
>
> > The problem is there are a fair number of packages that are not
> > overlapping but depend upon overlapping. So it really is difficult if
> > you have a sizeable repository like Axel does.
>
> My feeling is that 95% of all those "not overlapping but dependent"
> cases can be avoided with a healthy dose of common sense. Such as, less
> aggressive tracking of new releases, etc.

If you want less aggressive tracking, don't use 3rd party and/or use
distro that matches this policy (eg. use CentOS instead).

--
-jeff




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