Re: Apt at fedora.us (was: Re: redhat abe)

[Ville Skyttä <ville skytta iki fi>]

On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 13:47 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:31:01 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> 
> > I had asked Warren Togami to add them on PM and he answered:
> > "There is little good reason to do so.  Trying to limit the size of that
> > repository because many mirror administrators see it as redundant."
> > 
> > This is not true, SRPMS apt-repositories are not redundant. Not having
> > them implies loss of functionality to apt.
> 
> Well, then I think the Apt community may need to prove him wrong
> and do some lobbying.

FWIW, I would like to see the complete apt'table (pre-)Extras SRPMS
repos available at fedora.us and its mirrors.  The reasons have been
outlined in this thread.