Are Livna and FreshRPMS compatible?

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Wed Mar 22 03:00:14 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 21:52 -0300, Pedro Fernandes Macedo wrote:
> Mariano López Reta wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just wanted to know if I can have both installed so yum can search
> > both.
> >   
> 
> You can try to have both. Today I tried to install several apps and just 
> a few from livna conflicted with freshrpms. (Mostly because livna 
> provided the same programs and some rpms were pulling those as 
> dependencies).
This is what is meant by incompatible.  Dependency nightmares will
result.

> On my personal experience, I'd say they're compatible, as long as you 
> dont install packages that exist in both repositories. And if you do 
> install a package that install in both, get ready to debug the update 
> sometime in the future.
> 
> --
> Pedro Macedo
> 




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