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

On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:59:43 +0100, Thorsten wrote: > 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. Bad idea, IMO.

It's only possible to conflict with NEVR tuples, but not with repo ids.

[lot's of other good reasons why conflicting is a bad idea stripped]