Fedora Extras is extra

[Bernd Radinger]

On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 01:36:30 +0100 (CET), Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com> wrote:
>
> > 'flac' and 'alsa-lib' are from FC, not Fedora.us.
> 
> flac and alsa-lib are from FC _only_ starting from FC2 ! Before it was not
> and other repositories provided it. freshrpms was providing alsa-lib as
> far as back in RH7.3 IIRC.

what kind of upgrade did jeff vian try?

> > That is a side-effect of repository-mixing. Some of the other
> > repositories do upgrade or modify 'alsa-lib' and 'flac', Fedora.us
> > doesn't.
> 
> *FUD alert*
> 
> Fedora Core upgraded our packages in both cases. And we stopped providing
> them. No modification, no upgrading of core packages. Nothing whatsover,
> please verify your facts.

'we' is who?!

http://atrpms.net/dist/fc3/alsa-lib/
http://atrpms.net/dist/fc3/flac/
http://apt.atrpms.net/fedora/3/en/i386/RPMS.at-stable/

-- 
Bernd