Recapitulate the current state of Fedora Extras and some ideas to make it better

[Bill Nottingham]

seth vidal (skvidal at linux.duke.edu) said: 
> On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 10:19 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 10:35 -0700, Chris Weyl wrote:
> > > On 7/10/06, Rahul <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > > > Brew is not just the build system but Fedora Core's package management
> > > > (tracking packages) system to produce a distribution too. This is esp
> > > > important for something that is not pushed out as just rolling updates.
> > > 
> > > Semi OT, but is brew available externally to redhat anywhere?
> > 
> > Were it, I think we'd likely want to merge the stuff that's unique to
> > plague into Brew, and use Brew for Fedora Extras instead.  There are
> > some fundamental differences [1], so it might take a while, but would
> > likely be worth it in the end.
> 
> contingent, of course, on brew being made open source. :)

Absolutely.

Bill