Am Donnerstag, den 29.12.2005, 11:50 -0500 schrieb Brian Long:
On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 11:28 -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On 12/29/05, Brian Long <brilong(a)cisco.com> wrote:
> > I would think it would be in the best interest of the Fedora team to
> > install protectbase by default, enable it and protect Fedora repos. If
> > power users want to disable it, it's very easy.
> > Am I off-base in this request? :)
> Have you spoken with the atrpms and freshrpms maintainers? Do you have
> their agreement that turning this on is in the best interest of their
> users?
Nope. I don't know that it's up to me or the Fedora project to contact
each third-party repo maintainer when Fedora implements a change. I'm
asking Fedora to consider a change. If Fedora decides to implement that
change for the "protection" of their users and repos, the third party
repos would shoot themselves in the foot if they started scripting
around the protection! IMHO, they would lose credibility.
They don't override base Fedora RPMs just for fun, they afaik do it
because some of the their packages need fixes and/or enhancements that
are not in the base Fedora RPMs (correct me if I'm wrong here).
So if you protect the Core packages some packages in the 3rd-Party might
not work (or not perfectly). So it probably creates more problems for
the user and the 3rd party repo maintainer than it solves.
I believe there are 2 types of 3rd party repo users:
1) Fedora user who needs 3rd party repos for certain apps but never
wants that repo to override base Fedora RPMs
Then use a 3rd party repo that does not override Fedora Core or Extras
RPMS. Yes, such a repo exists, but no, I still has no mythtv -- nobody
stepped up to package it there. Any volunteers?
CU
thl
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Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora(a)leemhuis.info>