Re: Zero-tolerance educational methods for promoting questionable policies???

On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 20:00, Axel Thimm wrote:

> > > Odd, I get:
> > > WARNING: kernel-module-alsa not available for kernel
> > > 2.4.26-1.ll.rhfc1.ccrma!
> > > and
> > > The following packages have been kept back
> > >    alsa-driver (1.0.4-0.fdr.1.1 => 1.0.4-1.cvs.rhfc1.ccrma)
> > >    gstreamer-plugins (0.6.3-3 => 0.6.4-0.4.fr)
> > >    gthumb (2.0.2-1 => 2.2.1-1.fr)
> > > 
> > > Wouldn't that be a problem if I continue?
> 
> This looks like coming from fedora.us (from the "fdr" repo
> tag). Compatibility with fedora.us is a similar issue - I'd like to
> have fedora.us in the list of comaptible repos, but fedora.us has an
> explicit policy of not supporting repository mixing. This has led to
> many discussion on many lists in the past. While many people disagree
> with this policy, it is at least an open stated goal of the
> project.
> 

If the other repositories introduce incompatibilities with the
base distribution, what will happen when it is time to do
a version upgrade of the base release?

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