Where we are and where do we what to go?

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 26.01.2009 13:29, David Timms wrote:
> 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 ?

I have thought about that as well since the recent discussion on 
fedora-list (the one where mschwendt provided more details).

I tend to think it would be good to do. But OTOH: I fear that people 
don't properly why it's done and we might be the bad guys from their 
point of view.

CU
knurd