Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 10:52:57PM +0100, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote:
>> > I completely agree. This is one of the reasons I switched away from
>> > ubuntu years ago (with its 4 (?) tiers of support + repos for its
>> > packages ...).
>> I agree, Fedora did the Core-Extras Merge back in the day for a reason.
>
> That reason was _mainly_ to erase the inside Red Hat,
> community-around-the-edges distinction. That was a huge success and Fedora
> wouldn't be interesting without that. But I think the _technical_ choice
> was in retrospect a mistake. There's a reason RHEL 8 switched the _other_
> way.
Well, I was around in the old split days and I remember all the headaches
around the lines of "package X cannot be built against library Y because X
is in Core whereas Y is in Extras" and all the ugly workarounds we had for
such issues. Having one unified repository helped a lot to resolve those
very technical issues.
Kevin Kofler
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