Fedora Extras is extra
Shawn
javajunkie at koyuru.com
Tue Nov 30 01:27:06 UTC 2004
>>Mandag 29 november 2004 03:05 skrev Dag Wieers:
>> For me there's no reason to be incompatible. In fact, by being
>> incompatible my users are indirectly harmed as they are inable t use
>> fedora.us or livna.org. (Mind you, if you stay away from these
>> incompatible packages, you won't notice this).
>This really makes me happy. I am using kde-redhat, dag and freshrpms,
>and it seems to work wondefully, there was a tiny issue with redhat-
>menus recently but that was solved very quickly. The only problem is
>that you have to repeat this on this list every so often so that people
>will know what kind of mixing to avoid
(Non power user here)
Having no reliable way to know what "kind of mixing to avoid", I fret a
little doing updates -- a mix of ATRPMS, DAG and fedora.us
Have gotten stuck in the past where I had to force things or remove
packages to get updates to go, I view this as a daunting issue to using
linux especially with the uncertainty involved -- maybe I will always be
able to get out of the problems I create but...
There seems to be a lack of clear information on how to handle the
current situation. Ok don't mix but if that is necessary how to best
handle it?
>From this thread I gleaned (correct me if I am wrong please) that mixing
with fedora.us is potentially more problematic as they do things a bit
differently sometimes.
Not only that but ATRPMS seems to have better support for running mythtv
and if in the future other repositories spring up to especially support
a certain area, it would be nice if they could play with fedora.us.
Also, I am not in the US and don't want to rely a on repository that is
restricted by US laws.
Still I've used mirrors of fedora.redhat.com which is/has(?) merged with
fedora.us Extras, to get packages I absolutely needed which I couldn't
find elsewhere (ex. evolution2 on FC2 -- needed as Japanese support on
1.4.6 was garbage -- not able to go up to FC3).
I guess I feel stuck with a risky strategy to try and update my system.
Well thanks everyone for your work anyway. If only it weren't so
confusing and easier to do though... Maybe it's not such a problem and
I will keep getting by.
--
Shawn <javajunkie at koyuru.com>
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