Summary of the 2008-04-08 Packaging Committee meeting

[Les Mikesell]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 
>> OK, please supply your own words.  Jpackage.org has a perfectly fine 
>> repository. 
> 
> Nobody has "perfect" repositories.
> 
>  Fedora copies some, but not all of those packages into a
>> potentially conflicting repository.  Any argument so far? 
> 
> You are over-simplying. Things aren't merely "copied" over as you can 
> read about in other mails in the thread. There are developers involved 
> from Red Hat and otherwise working across both these repositories. There 
> are frequently changes in the packages in various directions.
> 
>  You did say
>> we learn to work with repository conflicts. 
> 
> Yes, the way I deal with it is by not using any third party repositories 
> that conflict with the official repository or with each other.

But the point of having hardware and an operating system distribution is 
to run the applications you want.  What do you do when the 
application(s) you want are in those third party repositories?

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   Les Mikesell
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