[repo-coord] I want Matthias for president! (was: Scratching the itch)

[Bent Terp]

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On Tuesday 04 May 2004 18:15, Matthias Saou wrote:
> Dag Wieers wrote :
> > > I believe the only repo which hasn't given me a single problem EVER, is
> > > freshrpms.

I second that opinion - read again "the ONLY".

> > All hail the list-owner !
>
> C'mmon, he's been lucky, that's all :-)

Do NOT believe in luck, DEPEND on it ;-)

Matthias, would you be willing to act as interrepo authority for the kernel 
package?

It's getting a wee bit tiresome to try and install kernel-module-* (or *-kmdl 
for that matter) only to find apt trying to downgrade my kernel :-(

I suppose this is merely one example of the problems arising from multiple 
repos packaging the same software.

If (and that seems to be a pretty big if right now) we could persuade all 
repos with kernel modules to build against the same kernel, it might be 
easier to mix'n'match kernel modules from different repos as we do today for 
user space packages.

Next big step would then be some sort of gentleman's agreement not to start 
building what other's have already done - IMNotSoHO (*) that seems like a 
complete waste of time in this first place, so hopefully we could get the 
others to agree to this.

/Benty

(*) According to a former employer, I simply don't possess humble opinions....
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