Dag, Thanks for the response. I knew you'd come in and clear up the details. :)
How can the issue be resolved? I don't know how something like this can be handled since I don't do anything with either repos (or how they are handled) but I would be willing to be a voice for everyone here. -- Robin On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Dag Wieers <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 13 May 2009, Robin Price II wrote: > > For RHEL, I would highly suggest using both EPEL and RPMFUSION >> together. They do not play nice with the Dag repo installed along side >> them. I spoke with Dag a while back regarding the conflicts I was >> having but I didn't see much interest to get things cleared up. >> Hopefully Dag follows the mailing-list closely and can comment more on >> it. >> > > There is no interest from the EPEL side either, which is a shame. When I > started I was basicly the only repository doing packages for Red Hat and > RHEL, that was somewhere in 2003. > > Then when Fedora was born there was no interest within the Fedora community > to support a paid-for distribution even when the effort would have been > minimal. That was the main reason why with RPMforge we couldn't work > together with the Fedora project because our main focus was RHEL (and later > also CentOS). > > The fact that the Fedora project started EPEL 2 years ago was a slap in the > face since those packages break existing systems that were using RPMforge > (mostly CentOS anyway). Fedora is not adding a repotag, which means we get > to blame when there are package conflicts (people think no repotag means > these packages come from Red Hat). > > Also the fact that EPEL is a Fedora initiative is not only confusing, it > tries to bring together two communities that are inherently different :-( > > Nowadays, RPMforge is mostly recommended and used on CentOS systems while > EPEL is promoted through the Fedora project and Red Hat. > > I like diversity but if it means choice is mutual exclusive everyone > looses. > > -- > -- dag wieers, [email protected], http://dag.wieers.com/ -- > [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] > > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv5-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list >
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