YAYP - Yet Another Yum Problem

[Christopher A. Williams]

On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 07:07 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 11/29/05, Christopher A. Williams <chrisw01 at comcast.net> wrote:
> > I wouldn't be so hard on Livna. I like Dag and what RPM Forge has to
> > offer as well.
> >
> > I wish all of them would frankly patch up their differences and work
> > together. It seems, unfortunately, too many flames and egos of people
> > dead set in a certain way of doing things have gotten in the way of
> > that.
> >
> > Ironically, the required updates from Livna were posted today. You
> > should be able to update everything now.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Chris
> >
> 
> Dag has an explanation on his site, that states that he is at least
> willing to meet the others halfway. His attitude seems to be better
> than livna's regarding the incompatibility issue. Just to be clear: I
> do appreciate the work of BOTH repos. I only mention this because I am
> forced to choose between them (like divorced parents).

...Sigh... I _totally_ understand how you feel about this and agree
100%. I know it's been discussed and flamed to a crisp, but it is a most
unfortunate situation and something that causes the Fedora community at
large to lose in the long run.

> In any case, I am still getting the dependancy errors. If this
> persists, I will switch back to Dag and friends. Or I will start using
> Smart- from what I understand Smart can handle these situations.

Smart is pretty neat as a tool. I haven't used it in a while, but it
worked quite well before.

Cheers,

Chris

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