troubling trend in package install

[Timothy Payne]

On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 23:14, Mike Ramirez wrote:
> Hi
> 
> In my experience with yum (and its the only one of its type I use
> regularly), I have found that if you wait a few days or so those
> dependencies show up.  The only dependency I can't resolve is JAVA from
> dag.  
> 
> Also the default yum.conf only has the base fedora packages Updates and
> extras from FreshRPMs. you can add more repositories like ATrpms, DAG,
> Fedora US, Livinia,  NewRPMS, and Dries for more applications and maybe
> some dependencies you don't have available on FreshRPMs. 
> 
> >From what I understand Dag along with FreshRPMS, ATrpms, NewRPMS and
> Dries are trying to work on creating one repository.
> 
> Let me know if you would like my entries in yum.conf for the
> repositories you don't have. 
> 
> Please post them (and the location of yum.conf) I'm new to Fedora an do like to use yum.
Finding new sources for Linux stuff is always helpful.

Tim...
> 
> On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 22:53, Nadeem Bitar wrote:
> > Recently over 50% of my attempts to install something using yum results
> > in an ......Unable to satisfy dependencies package x needs y, this is
> > not available.
> > 
> > Is there any effort to provide an extensive list of add-on packages for
> > Fedora installable from yum. 
> > 
> > regards,
> > 
> > nadeem
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
>