Where we are and where do we what to go?

David Timms dtimms at iinet.net.au
Mon Jan 26 13:29:52 CET 2009


Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:53:46 +0100, Thorsten wrote:
> 
>>>>> - still lots of other 3rd party repos out there; users still run 
>>>>> into problems as they try to mix incompatible repos; should we 
>>>>> actively try to get more repos merged into RPM Fusion?
>>>> Yes!
>>> I haven't been on lists etc where users are having such trouble recently
>>> (actually one I did suggest going with RPM Fusion rather than a
>>> troublesome combination of 4 other external repos.
>> There was someone on fedora-list recently that had trouble, as he had 
>> atrpms and rpmfusion enabled.
> 
> ffmpeg vs. ffmpeg-libs as well as x264 currently cause unresolved deps
> due to soname differences.

Do you think RPM Fusion packages should include conflicts or similar 
(with external 3rd party repos packaging) to stop an install that would 
cause the two styles of packaging to both be installed ?

DaveT.


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