Freshrpms.net concerns.

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 8 Nov 2003 21:07:16 +0100 (CET), Konrad Kosmowski wrote:

> > > 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!

Is that feasible? I mean, do you get everything from a single repository?
Isn't mixing of DAG, freshrpms, kde-redhat and other repository pretty
common?  At least it is my impression based on the occasional problem
reports in message boards.

> > > 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.

Not aiming at a complete list, but gaim, gstreamer, gthumb, nmap,
sylpheed, yum, probably a few more. There are users who refuse to use a
repository when it updates packages included within the core distribution.

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