Fedora Extras packaging beta software into production repos, why?

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 16:32 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 09:10 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > End users may already be using packages from third-party repos, and may
> > have issues if new and incompatible packages of those applications
> > subsequently appear in Extras. The Extras packager could save their
> > potential users some grief if they took notice of what's already
> > available elsewhere and tried to avoid breaking upgrade paths between
> > their package and others' (and vice versa). Of course if the third-party
> > packager has done something stupid with their package, it doesn't mean
> > that the Extras packager should follow suit, but at least as a courtesy
> > to users try to avoid breaking things unnecessarily. 
> 
> My point was that if the third-party packager has built the package and
> put it anywhere _other_ than Core, Extras or Livna, they've already done
> something stupid.

... you definitely know, there are plenty of reasons to use 3rd party
repos.

>  Or at least suboptimal.
... as if things were so easy ... ;)

Ralf