Re: How long to setup a new system?

["Jarod Wilson" <user=74@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Jan 29, 2008, at 9:02 PM, Kristian Erik Hermansen 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.