Freshrpms.net concerns.

Konrad Kosmowski K.Kosmowski at wsisiz.edu.pl
Sat Nov 8 20:07:16 UTC 2003


On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Michael Schwendt wrote:

> > > I find myself in complete agreement with you. It is important that
> > > people realise that they cannot mix and match repositories.

> > By using FreshRPMS (which are build *for* Fedora) and Fedora what do I 
> > exactly mix? - I don't get it. Seriously.  

> Packages from freshrpms.net can conflict with packages from other add-on
> repositories and even with future packages from Fedora Core.

As I said - I've been using FreshRPMS with RHL 7.3, 8.0 and 9 - this 
never happened (no conflicts). And speaking of other repos - use only 
one! I mean: Fedora + AtRPMS, or Fedora + FreshRPMS - I agree, as for 
now mixing addon repos leads to conflicts. But I can't think of a good 
solution to prevent this? Can you? Since Fedora (and Linux in general) 
is free anybody can make their own repo and anybody can use any repo... 
And people usualy do this due to limitations of Fedora and previous RHL.

> > > I want cool apps too, but not at the price I might have to pay.

> > What is the price of using Fedora and FreshRPMS? Essential packages come 
> > from Fedora, addons come from FreshRPMS, they do *NOT* exactly mix since 
> > none of FreshRPMS packages *replaces* any of Fedora packages - they are 
> > simply *additional* that coexist together. So I still do not get your 
> > point. 

> Not true. The repository contains a couple of packages which override what
> is included within Red Hat Linux or Fedora Core.

Can you specify those packages? I'am not saying that is not true but 
there is usualy a reason for this.

PS. Sorry for my english - I'am not native speaker.

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