On Wed, 8 Jul 2009, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote:
On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 14:33 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote:
On the other hand, I think you need to talk to the yum developers
too. Since there is no good reason for blocking all updates if one
dependency is missing.
I always wanted to ask you what are your guesses on why Seth behaves in
such a way? I have followed one of your bug reports on this matter and I
would say that it leaves a bad impression on the third parties.
The "notabug, fix the repo" claims are childish at very least. Actually
one of the repositories *might* break due to the various reasons, but
this shouldn't block the updates from the healthy repos. A well-thought
of package manager should still react in a sane way instead of possibly
blocking critical updates coming from the working repo.
Is there some technical reasons of not fixing the dependency resolution
code, do they reject patches or have another view of the problem, did
you actually met him offline? It's just over my head...
I don't know exactly. Fact is that if you consider mixing repositories,
the chances of having dependency errors become even higher, so a depsolver
that can handle it better would actually help in making repositories
compatible. (with apt it is easier to mix, but still not completely
transparant)
Now, I can only second guess here, but Seth works for Red Hat/Fedora and
Red Hat/Fedora has an interest in having people use their repository over
having them use a combination of repositories. So there is at least a
benefit to them to make it harder to mix repositories.
The developer of apt-rpm was also hired by Red Hat, and since that day
apt-rpm stopped being developed. It's probably that Panu simply doesn't
have time for it anymore now that he works for Red Hat, but it's sad to
see diversity disappear in such a way :-/
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