Re: kde-3.5.10 for el4/el5

Gilboa Davara <[email protected]> Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:23:17 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.kde.redhat.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 09:41 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Gilboa Davara wrote:
> 
> > Any idea why the rpmforge group doesn't support EPEL?
> 
> Imo, it's all egos.
> 
> There were some personality and policy conflicts early on when epel 
> tried to reach out to rpmforge devs, and since then, rpmforge (dag 
> mostly) has the perception (valid or not, I won't argue that here) that 
> epel isn't interested in working together.
> 
> So, here we are, 2 largely overlapping repos with hardly any 
> collaboration or cooperation.  Disappointing really.
> 
> I try to help when/where I can, slowly but surely.
> 
> -- Rex

It's a shame, really - Dag used to be my favorite repo. (Long before
Fedora-extras came to life...)

Either way, any chance that rpmforge will fix/remove the offending exiv
package? (... And if they don't - can I somehow block this package, only
when it comes from rpmforge?)

- Gilboa


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