Summary of the 2008-04-08 Packaging Committee meeting

[Rahul Sundaram]

Les Mikesell wrote:

> 
> Then just admit that the duplication causes more harm than good and make 
> the user set up his own yum configuration if pointing to jpackage is a 
> problem for you.  Do the same with openoffice if you can't support it 
> without badly duplicating packages with better upstreams.  What's the 
> point of making things worse for your users?

Repository conflicts have always existed. As long as there is more than 
one repository that is not perfectly complimentary, that is just a fact 
of life. We just learn to work with it in a way we can. If that doesn't 
suit you, do your own thing instead. Good luck.

Rahul