[repo-coord] Re: Zero-tolerance educational methods for promoting questionable policies??? (was: ClamAV 0.70)

[Les Mikesell]

On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 10:25, Oscar A. Valdez wrote:

> It is in the Fedora community's best interest for you two to cooperate.
> I'm pleading with you to set aside any animosity, and to talk things out
> in the generous, smart spirit that characterizes both of you.

Yes, please - and if the problem lies in backwards compatibility with
prior conventions where any change forces existing users to download
too much, would it be possible to make a new repository that would
be maintained in parallel for a while?  Then as people install new
distributions they could cut over to the new, hopefully more compatible
repositories.  So far I haven't been able to keep a machine working
right for more than a month without massive conflicts if I use
more than one repository in addition to the fedora base.  For example,
right now, apt would like to install a kernel from ccrma but complains
that there is no kernel-module-alsa which I think came from freshrpms
last time.

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  Les Mikesell
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