Fedora Extras is extra
Michael A. Peters
mpeters at mac.com
Sun Nov 28 21:44:33 UTC 2004
On 11/28/2004 01:11:25 PM, William M. Quarles wrote:
> OK, someone pointed this out to me:
>
> <http://www.fedora.us/wiki/RepositoryMixingProblems>
>
> Join us or we'll start reproducing your software in your place
> anyways.
I don't think that is what they are saying.
I think what they are saying is that their may be conflicts with their
repository if you use someone elses as well, and that is a point worth
considering.
That doesn't mean you can't use other repositories, it just means there
might be some packaging conflicts you have to resolve (by telling one
repo or the other to ignore certain packages).
I will say that I specifically do not like the fact that some of the
popular repositories out there offer packages that REPLACE Fedora Core
packages in the same repository as their add on packages - they really
should separate those out to a different repository so that users like
me who want to think long and hard before replacing a core package
won't have to worry about that. Fedora Extras does not replace Core
packages, it is safe to use. When it is available ;)
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