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]
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