From: unruh@invalid.ca   
      
   On 2012-05-21, Adam  wrote:   
   > unruh wrote:   
   >> On 2012-05-20, Adam  wrote:   
   >>> Really elementary question:  Are the two distros already different   
   >>> enough that packages from the Mandriva repository won't work with   
   >>> Mageia?   
   >>   
   >> They may work now. But they will diverge more and more very rapidly   
   >> (exponentially) unless of course Mageia becomes MandrivaFree (which   
   >> MandrivaSA seems to want to set up).   
   >   
   > Thanks for your answer, Bill!  IOW the two repositories aren't, or   
   > soon won't be, able to complement each other.   
      
   AFAIK there are packages from the SUSE repository that can run on   
   Mandriva. And they have diverged for a while. The problem comes when   
   packages have specific dependencies on package names which are not   
   generic.   
      
      
   >   
   > Mageia becoming Mandriva Free?  That sounds like it would be a good   
   > thing, at least for me as an end user.  Ongoing development by folks   
   > who know what they're doing, plus all the packages from the Mandriva   
   > repository.   
      
   I do not think that MandrivaFree plus Mageia separately is stable.   
   >   
   > Adam   
      
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