Summary of the 2008-04-08 Packaging Committee meeting
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri May 16 17:59:29 UTC 2008
Callum Lerwick wrote:
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> Overlapping repos are fundamentally broken, period.
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> Then why create overlap?
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> Because moving things into Fedora is a good thing for Fedora.
I've never considered being tied to a single provider to be good for
anyone. And certainly not when that provider imposes policies that
fragment and can only deliver parts of what would otherwise be easily
available elsewhere.
> Look, I'm not going to waste my time trying to convince you of anything
> as you've established yourself as quite the Ferrous Cranius:
>
> http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/warriorshtm/ferouscranus.htm
Being 'right' isn't quite the point here. It's more a question of
whether fedora can ever be a reasonable platform for someone who wants
to install items that don't come from the fedora repository and almost
certainly never will.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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