yum RFE

[Jesse Keating]

On Wednesday 18 October 2006 12:14, Christopher Stone wrote:
> The reason it was closed was because Seth totally misunderstood what
> the RFE was trying to accomplish.  Set thought that we were trying to
> make it impossible or extremely difficult for 3rd parth repos. to
> override base packages when the opposite is true.  We want to make it
> easy for them to do this, but we want the user to have to take an
> extra step in order to enable them to do this.  And this extra step
> should warn the user about the consequences of enabling this.
>
> We are *trying* to protect unknowning and unsuspecting users here.

Unknowing and unsuspecting users will become frightening and confused when the 
repo they added doesn't work like the rest of the repos they have.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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