Freshrpms.net concerns.

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 8 Nov 2003 20:19:37 +0100 (CET), Konrad Kosmowski wrote:

> On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Kevin Francis 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.
 
> > 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.

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