-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said:
| in a main repository? In Fedora, the multitude of repositories for | downloading packages has caused nightmares of "dependency hell" when | users install from two or more repos that carry some of the same package. | | The most user-friendly solution is one location that holds all the apps | a user could want, one place for them to look, one place to maintain. | Branching repositories should be avoided as much as possible. | | Submitting packages to OE is like contributing upstream. It makes the | most out of your contribution. Yeah I know what you are talking about exactly. In fact it is OK if apps are in multiple repos so long as they are linked entirely against canonical dependent packages from central distribution. The damage came when you had say mplayer from freshrpms and livna that each required and imported say faad from their respective repositories. Then if you wanted xine from a different place you got mplayer, the Hell appeared because faad dependency in xine could either be satisfied by the foreign package of different patchlevel than the one from the same place as the Xine, or worse could not be satisfied due to use of = version dependency when the two repos' faad were at different versions. Of course it becomes political then what gets into the central distribution with what config options, as happened with Fedora rafts of dependent packages were landgrabbed into Extras as the de-facto canonical source of them and the independent guys felt treated badly about having that taken away from them rather brusquely. In addition people were and still are grumpy about the pretty intense packaging rules and "bureaucracy" surrounding "submission" of packages and "approval", although since as a Fedora user I benefit from the high level of engineering and consistency I find it hard to argue against it. - -Andy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkhGOuwACgkQOjLpvpq7dMq2GQCeI9+3ZV3kn5nrmwDaHKJi4gG0 cM8Anj0U1lFpaM32+W4UuJLcM30kONzI =1GZi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community