[repo-coord] Re: Zero-tolerance educational methods for promoting questionable policies???

[Les Mikesell]

On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 16:03, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > 
> > 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?
> 
> No, that is not the issue here, at least not in the current
> discussion. It is not about backwards compatibility, but about
> compatibility across repos, e.g. to be able to use repo A and B
> together.

I thought in some earlier version of this discussion the stumbling
block towards making changes to improve compatibility was that
they would force people already using a repository to download
new versions of everything needlessly.

> The discussion is about Dag blessing a scheme as a standard and
> forcing other repos to either go with his scheme, or not be
> coexistable. Technically speaking he is obsoleting other people's
> packages.

Is there another choice for items that can't co-exist?  And is there
a way to minimize the things that can't?  For example could you
cooperatively maintain as much as possible in a common repository
which you would each mirror and reserve the conflicts for the
things where you have differing ideas about how something should
be built?

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  Les Mikesell
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