Fedora Extras is extra

[Shawn]

>>Mandag 29 november 2004 03:05 skrev Dag Wieers:
>> For me there's no reason to be incompatible. In fact, by being
>> incompatible my users are indirectly harmed as they are inable t use
>> fedora.us or livna.org. (Mind you, if you stay away from these
>> incompatible packages, you won't notice this).

>This really makes me happy. I am using kde-redhat, dag and freshrpms,
>and it seems to work wondefully, there was a tiny issue with redhat-
>menus recently but that was solved very quickly. The only problem is
>that you have to repeat this on this list every so often so that people
>will know what kind of mixing to avoid

(Non power user here)

Having no reliable way to know what "kind of mixing to avoid", I fret a
little doing updates -- a mix of ATRPMS, DAG and fedora.us

Have gotten stuck in the past where I had to force things or remove
packages to get updates to go, I view this as a daunting issue to using
linux especially with the uncertainty involved -- maybe I will always be
able to get out of the problems I create but...

There seems to be a lack of clear information on how to handle the
current situation.  Ok don't mix but if that is necessary how to best
handle it?

>From this thread I gleaned (correct me if I am wrong please) that mixing
with fedora.us is potentially more problematic as they do things a bit
differently sometimes. 
   

Not only that but ATRPMS seems to have better support for running mythtv
and if in the future other repositories spring up to especially support
a certain area, it would be nice if they could play with fedora.us.
Also, I am not in the US and don't want to rely a on repository that is
restricted by US laws.

Still I've used mirrors of fedora.redhat.com which is/has(?) merged with
fedora.us Extras, to get packages I absolutely needed which I couldn't
find elsewhere (ex. evolution2 on FC2 -- needed as Japanese support on
1.4.6 was garbage -- not able to go up to FC3).

I guess I feel stuck with a risky strategy to try and update my system.
Well thanks everyone for your work anyway.  If only it weren't so
confusing and easier to do though...  Maybe it's not such a problem and
I will keep getting by.



-- 
Shawn <javajunkie at koyuru.com>