[ATrpms-devel] Repo tags

[Paulo Cavalcanti]

>
>
> Yes, I'm dropping repotags and these bugs are side-effects of trying
> to teach my buildsystem that assumed perpetual repotags.
>
> The reason is that repos are dropping repotags one by one and the ones
> keeping the repotag get to be the ones getting the support issues, as
> the others suddenly become more official to end users.
>
> It started with freshrpms last year and while I started to keep track
> of what packages are being confused, now the new player in the game,
> epel, decide to also not have repotags. As a consequence Dag and Dries
> will also drop repotags, so the majority of packages will be w/o
> repotags, therefore I decided to go alone and not have all the pain
> dropped onto me. :/
>
> I'm a big believer of repotags, but they only work if all repos use
> them. A black sheep can destroy this system, and that's what
> happened. I spent about two months real time worth of discussion on
> the epel lists to change people's minds, but obviously didn't succeed.



Oh, Gosh

I knew this was going to happen sooner or later.
It is becoming so difficult to mix repos that one will have to choose only
one or
two of them. This is the reason I bothered you so much to include the stuff
I need. I can say that from what I use today, 85% comes from ATrpms, 10%
from freshrpms, 2% from kde-redhat and 3% from the others.

It is really a pity, because  there are a lot of smart guys behind all those
repos
but, unfortunately, as a team, the result is more like a Tower of Babel.

Anyway, tomorrow is labor day, and I would like to thank you once more
for all the work and time you have put on Atrpms.

-- 
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ
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