Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

Jaroslav Reznik jreznik at redhat.com
Thu Mar 4 15:01:17 UTC 2010


On Thursday 04 March 2010 15:58:32 Thomas Janssen wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Thursday 04 March 2010 15:30:43 Juha Tuomala wrote:
> >> On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> >> > current stable release nor support an official backports repo, an
> >> > unofficial one will no doubt spring up, or an existing unofficial repo
> >> > will pick up that role (for KDE, kde-redhat stable would probably be
> >> > revived, currently it's mostly empty for Fedora as the kind of stuff
> >> > which would be in there is usually just pushed as official Fedora
> >> > updates).
> >> 
> >> Go ahead, make that to your kde-hardcore-followers-repo. In my
> >> understanding, that's what it has been for past years already
> >> anyway.
> > 
> > Third party repos are highway to hell unfortunately. Ask former OpenSuse
> > users
> > 
> > :( Of course - it's one of solutions.
> 
> Yes (former/still some installations, openSUSE user here), third party
> repos can be a hell. They are definitely not for beginners or
> i-dont-care users.

These repos are not intended for beginners/i-dont-care users but it's hell 
even for advanced users - it just screw system... Even I try not to mess with 
RPM fussion but it's still needed :(

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