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[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Friday, 14 November 2008 at 20:28, Horst H. von Brand wrote:
> Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik at greysector.net> wrote:
> > On Friday, 14 November 2008 at 17:46, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 11:26 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > > > > > How do you define/configure a "good default course"?
> > > > > 
> > > > >  I've recently posted a patch to the yum ML which would allow Fedora (or
> > > > > any active repo.) to configure these choices manually. We could then
> > > > > also easily have different defaults for the desktop vs. the server
> > > > > spins.
> > > > 
> > > > Where would you store per-spin defaults, as they all point to the
> > > > same repo?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > And how would you account for multiple repos providing this
> > > information... differently?  Which repo wins?
> 
> > That's easy, just make per-spin packages with the appropriate config
> > files (for some yum plugin, perhaps?). Make them conflict with each
> > other explicitly, too.
> 
> How on earth would I know with which packages from /other/ spins to clash?

These packages could be built from one src.rpm, making it easy to keep
a central list.

Regards,
R.

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