future of smart

[Grant McWilliams]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Michael Jennings <mej at kainx.org> wrote:

> On Thursday, 12 June 2008, at 13:48:07 (-0700),
> Grant McWilliams wrote:
>
> > This is true as long as both packages are not in the same repository
> > (they were). It still comes back to it being a packaging problem but
> > exists nonetheless.
>
> That's a repository problem (insofar as the repository is internally
> inconsistent) and an administrative problem (insofar as the admin is
> using a repository that is lame).  The correct answer (IMHO) is
> "choose your repositories more wisely," not "bloat smart."
>
> Michael
>

I'm not the only one relying on rpmforge. I don't think saying not to
include it is the answer. It's nice to stand on ones soapbox and preach but
some of us have a job to do so I have two solutions, create my own repo that
includes everything that I need in rpmforge and maintain it myself or rely
on them. Guess which one I'm going to do? The repos that are only moderately
stable like atrpms I just disable or don't include at all but we rely on so
many things in rpmforge that I'd probably have to choose a different distro
without it.

Grant
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