update gives me broken /etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo file

[Axel Thimm]

On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 11:13:24PM -0400, David Cary Hart wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 00:43 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 12:52:59PM -0400, David Cary Hart wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 17:39 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > > > Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > > > >   ok, another "yum update" issue.  after a recent update, i got a
> > > > > whack of new /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo files as part of the
> > > > > medley-package-config package, which included a new (and apparently
> > > > > broken) atrpms.repo file.
> > > > 
> > > > Sounds like ATrpms is self-destructing ;-)
> > > 
> > > Anecdotally, it looks like 30% of the problems on this list are related
> > > to mixed repos. Axel (who contributes much to the community) makes
> > > matters more complicated with proprietary dependencies.
> > 
> > What is a "proprietary dependency"??? It sound like having packages
> > depend on non GPL components (well ipw2x00 kmdls do depend on
> > non-GPL'd firmware packages, if that is waht you mean, but I think
> > not).
> 
> First let me assure you again that I'm not being critical of your
> efforts. By proprietary, I mean the additional ATRPM installation
> packages which are unique to ATRPMS.

Isn't that the reason for adding 3rd party repos? If everything was in
the core repo and 3rd party repos would only have duplicates,
shouldn't they be called mirrors instead? :)
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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