What are consequences of "merger necessitates removal of ...

[Dennis Gilmore]

Fedora Packages have always been problematic with anything other than Red Hat 
and fedora.  which has made this tough  as the alsa support at Fedora  is 
non-existant,  i much prefer alsa for sound so i use freshrpms and only use 
from fedora packages  that i have wanted  that were not availiable elsewhere.  
and i have even submited a couple of packages at fedora.  i hope  that the 
incompatabilites will be resolved. I honestly dont think Fedora has all the 
answers  and all it curreently has is a basic framework.  But it is a good 
starting point.  i personally would like to see releases only yearly or less.  
with updates constantly. new releases  should only come when compatibility 
with the release is about to be broken.  take that step then and only then.

Dennis
>
> Mixing repositories is problematic. It looks that fedora packages always
> had an epoch set, and thus always looked "newer" then freshrpms
> packages. But now, after they remove all video and mp3 packages there
> will be less duplicates.
>
> > On the other hand, Fedora, until now, has allowed me to very quickly and
> > easily extend my standard Red Hat 7, 8, and 9 servers/workstations while
> > encounter few if any of these problems. It has really, really been nice.
> > But now it ends and I am thrown back into the whirlpool.
> >
> > It has been very, very nice install Fedora yum/apt and be able to tell
> > my customers, my sister, my wife, "Just do ..." and presto, changeo, you
> > can play your MP3's or watch your DVD's. They really don't do so well
> > when I pass on to them the typical answer from these lists of "just
> > install all this stuff from freshrpms, reconfigure your modules.conf,
> > maybe rebuild your kernel, and it 'just works', Yeah, right"
>
> Again, never seen any such problems. Just ran apt-get xmms-mp3 mplayer
> xine ... after distro installation and it just worked.