Re: meta-repository idea (was Re: mplayer vs. xine)

[Hugo van der Kooij <hvdkooij vanderkooij org>]

On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Julien Olivier wrote:

> > It would be *much* better if the same packages could be included within a
> > repository like rpm.livna.org, so the user doesn't need to maintain an
> > increasing list of repositories for individual packages.
>
> Maybe something even better: isn't it possible for a repository to
> automatically include another repository. For example, it would be great
> if one repository could "depend" on more repositories (rpm.livna.org,
> macromedia.mplug.org, jpackage.org etc...) so that end-users would only
> have to add 1 line in there yum.conf and still get packages from many
> repositories. It would be a kind of meta-repository.

Preferably with a an option to do this on a package by package basis.

Hugo.

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