Fedora Extras is extra

[Mike Ramirez]

On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 11:10, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
>  In
> fact, i believe such testing is a waste of limited resources that
> could be used for other purposes.


Hi Jeff

I think you answered my why question and can agree with you an almost
everything said.  This here I think is wrong.  This testing is necessary
or we will always have this same problem. I think a compromise must be
made in this area to have cross compatibility between all repos for a
better user experience.  

Otherwise it will stay as it is.  Is this a  good thing?  or a bad
thing?  I think this thread has pointed out that its bad and needs to be
fixed.  Otherwise people will always have to choose between fedora
extras and the rest of the third party repos.  

You are right with limited resources but if BOTH sides work TOGETHER to
solve this and find a middle ground a positive answer can be found.  By
rejecting other established repos you cut your resources even more and
thats your biggest gripe about not being able to do this testing.  

Until something can be done in this area I don't think alot of new users
will have a positive experience with Fedora and installing packages not
part of the Core distribution.  If I'm right will this help or hurt
Fedora as a whole?  

I have in the past made a decision not to use fedora.us packages and use
only certain repos mainly to avoid the compatibility problems.  I would
rather be able to have a real choice solely on content to use a repo or
not.  Not because this one works with this one and this one doesn't. 
New users won't really understand that right away.  I know I didn't. 
What is the answer to this?  This is what has been asked before and I'm
asking again.  How can we get interoperability between ALL repos or is
that just impossible now?

This question goes out to all repos not just Fedora Extras but EVERY
repo maintainer and packager around the world.    



-- 
Mike Ramirez <mike at thexxxhost.com>
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