Fedora Extras is extra
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Thu Dec 2 01:41:54 UTC 2004
On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 22:58 -0500, William M. Quarles wrote:
> Jeff Vian wrote:
>
> <snip>
> > And this is one problem with third party packagers. Non-standard
> > naming/packaging practices and the extent by which some modify the core
> > OS make compatibility choices difficult. Total lack of documentation on
> > the changes and compatibilities make it hard to know what is right, so
> > using a site where everything is known to "just work" without breaking
> > something else is a big factor.
> <snip>
>
> I'm confused about the "so using a site where everything is known to
> "just work" without breaking something else is a big factor" part. A
> little clarfication might be helpful.
>
That comment was based on reputation gleaned from the mailing list, as
well as personal experience (good with some repositories, not so good
with others).
> FreshRPMs has complete descriptions and changelogs for every SRPM its
> website if you go there to download individual packages. However, it's
> much more efficient to just use Yum or APT, which doesn't deal you any
> documentation. Perhaps a more upfront "this is what installing my stuff
> using Yum/APT will do to your system" would be helpful.
>
> ----
> Peace,
> William
>
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