RH Decisions (was Re: APT, Yum and Red Carpet)

[Alan Cox]

> different repos all providing the same version of the same library
> compiled with different "options" turned on or off in the specfile or
> with craptastic explicit dependancies listed in the specfile...or
> dependancies unique to one repo.  How you maintain a mixed dependancy
> tree among several 3rd party repos sanely is more than slightly scary.

What you want to avoid is multiple repositories with the same packages.
Debian works in part because a package has a maintainer and there aren't
too many rivial setups.

> 53 developers each with their little micro-repo isn't going to be much
> better than rpms sitting in project trees on sourceforge.

Its an indexing problem (and possibly a rating, trust metric and graphic
exercise)

> -jef"and someone PLEASE think about the people stuck on dial-up on some
> of their machines, and make it easy to grab something like repo iso
> images, like maybe on a quarterly basis"spaleta

In many of the countries Red Hat has a presence in or ships too broadband
is either nonexistant or for the rich. It also still seems to be that way
for large swathes of rural europe and the USA. Its been on the requirement
list from day one