Fedora Extras is extra

[Jeff Vian]

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
>