now KDE packages can't be updated via "yum"

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Fri Jul 29 16:25:48 UTC 2005


Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, David Cary Hart wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 16:31 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>
>>>  this is starting to get kind of tiresome.  having followed the
>>>instructions at:
>>>
>>>  http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/
>>>
>>>to add a repo file for the KDE yum repos, i did:
>>>
>>>  # yum list updates
>>>
>>>and got a pile of KDE-related rpms that could be updated.  terrific, i
>>>think, go for it:
>>
>>These are NOT official Fedora packages. Fedora maintainers cannot be
>>responsible for compatibility with third party compilations.
> 
> 
> oh, i understand that.  mine was a general nit regarding the numerous
> repos that are being created with undocumented dependencies on yet
> *other* repos.

It is documented, just not very obvious (and not on the front page, 
sorry, we'll fix that):

http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=484449

-- Rex




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