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Date: | Sat, 2 Sep 2006 14:28:39 +0300 |
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Axel Thimm wrote:
> this is strongly discouraged by 3rd party repos. Selective/partial
> enabling leads to some packages being updated, but not their
> dependencies, as the users would have to put all dependencies into
> their filtering effectively replicating a depsolver's work. Also
> dependencies change over time and therefore break any filtering.
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> The often made recommendation to filter repos leads to worse bugs as
> they become dependent on the personal filtering thus every user has
> his own set of bugs and any support attempt is futile. A typical
> example is that users filter with include=foo and libfoo is never
> updated along ...
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> I can only speak for ATrpms authoritatively, but I know the other
> repos share the same opinion: Either use a repo unfiltered, or not at
> all. If you start filtering things, you're on your own, please don't
> even consider reporting resulting bugs.
Usually, when I search and install an application from some third party repository, I have
all the repositories enabled in yumex. Until now I had no problems.
Also, I expect each repository to provide all the dependencies of every application it
provides. Isn't this true?
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