F14 yum update conflict

[JD]

On 04/07/2011 08:44 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> rpm -e libmad
Tried. It breaks several apps.

How can  contact the Fedora Repo , The ATRPMS Repo and RPMFusion rep 
mintainers
to ask them why in tarnation hey screw up fedora users' installations in 
this way?

They offer rpms for apps the main fedora repo does not provide, but
link them with libraries and packages with a slightly different
build and version number than what Fedora Repo DOES provide, thus
breaking the dependency chain.

I was hoping that Redhat would lower the boom and tell these repo
maintainers that they cannot name their package names with the
fc14 (or in general fcN), if they break Redhat's fcN releases
dependency chains, and should not duplicate libraries in /lib and
/usr/lib, which Redhat Fedora already provides.

This would be similar to distros that change the names of their
packages, even though they are spin-off's of RHEL5 or RHEL6;
such as CENTOS and Scientific Linux... This way, users would
not be "baited" into installing such packages.

What does the community think of this approach?

Cheers,

JD