That ole Livna Problem/That ole VLC Problem

[Les Mikesell]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
> no, that clearly won't stop some people from screwing things up, but
> as long as people continue to build incompatible repos, i don't see
> that there's any perfect solution.

Ummm, people didn't 'build incompatible repos'.  The 3rd party repos 
existed long before fedora (I used them with apt-get for rpms back in 
the RH7.x days and they were probably around before that).  It is the 
fedora project that is repackaging parts of the things available in 3rd 
party repos in incompatible ways.  That might be OK if they had the 
potential to be a complete replacement, but they don't.  So they have 
set up the situation where they won't/can't provide everything needed 
and yet refuse to cooperate with the people who will.  I suppose a US 
company with enough money to be worth suing has to maintain some 
distance regarding cooperation with anything potentially related to 
helping with patent infringement but that isn't even involved for some 
things like Nvidia and java.

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   Les Mikesell
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