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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.
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