Re: Where we are and where do we what to go?

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.