[packagers] becoming a packager

[Dag Wieers]

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Rex Dieter wrote:

> Rex Dieter wrote:
> > J Robinson wrote:
> > >
> > > On Nov 22, 2007 1:22 PM, Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com
> > > <mailto:dag at wieers.com>> wrote:
> > >
> > >     On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, J Robinson wrote:
> > >
> > >      > Yup, rebuilding mediawiki.src.rpm with epel5 enabled succeeded --
> > > it
> > >      > installed ocaml from the epel5 repo in order to build mediawiki.
> > >
> > >     ocaml is in RPMforge, if you start building packages against EPEL
> > > (which
> > >     is by design incompatible with other 3rd party efforts) they are not
> > >     guaranteed to work with RPMforge.
> >
> > Dag, stop the FUD please, it's not becoming.  The incompatibility can at
> > least currently be described as a 2-way street (and that's being generous,
> > but hey, since I'm biased, I'll leave it at that).
>
> Sorry, wrong attribution.  Still, whoever spreads such nonsense just needs to
> stop, seriously.  If you want things better, please *do* something other than
> simply complain.

Rex, do you seriously believe that a small community of 10 people is going
to fix the incompatibilities created by 140+ people. (even more if you
count the Fedora Extras in total)

Either Fedora/EPEL officially adds this to their policy or it will not
happen.

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