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I found ubuntu pretty neat with its online repositories. however, it won't help much when you need to install a system in exile island. fedora installer dvd + fedora extras would be better off. thx, -bas On Jan 29, 2008 9:02 PM, Kristian Erik Hermansen < [hidden email]> wrote: > On Jan 29, 2008 5:59 PM, David Kramer <[hidden email]> wrote: > > Because no one Fedora repository (livna, atrpms, freshrpms..) has > > everything I needed, I ended up with some nasty conflicts that took me > > close to three hours to resolve. Following the assorted mailing lists, > > it's clear there are frequent battles between atrpms and livna that > > leave packages compiled with different options, or broken out > > differently. I even found packages with dependencies that weren't even > > anywhere in the repository. > > > > Then you have the problem of kernel updates in the fedora repositories > > where the matching kmdl packages don't get updated for days, or ever. > > My server depends on quite a few of these, and it's a real bummer to > > have to check my hand that all the ones I need are available before I > > can upgrade my kernel. > > > > It disappoints and frustrates me to no end that these issues have > > affected Fedora and other distros for years, and it doesn't appear to be > > getting better. If anything pushes me away from Fedora, it will be > this. > > > > > > Ugh. Sorry for the rant. It was a long night. > > It's OK. I feel your pain. That's why I use Ubuntu. The official > repositories have pretty much everything I need. The only exception > being libdvdcss, but Ubuntu provides a script that easily pulls down > the package, should you require it :-) > -- > Kristian Erik Hermansen > "Know something about everything and everything about something." > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [hidden email] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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