Yum repo compatibility
Michael Schwendt
fedora at wir-sind-cool.org
Fri Nov 5 16:49:04 UTC 2004
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 11:34:03 -0500, Erik Kjær Pedersen wrote:
> > Why not take the route of Fedora Extras and extend Fedora Core with add-on
> > packages, which to use as foundation for even more packages? A single
> > easy-to-find place where to get extra packages instead of a multitude of
> > repositories around the world.
>
> It would be terible if that should happen. I use the rpm's from kde-redhat,
> and they are just so much better than the ones from the fedora project.
Apples and oranges.
The kde-redhat project doesn't fit into the Fedora Extras definition,
because it replaces packages in Fedora Core. That makes it either a Fedora
Alternatives style repository or a 3rd party repository with even more
freedom.
Working on Fedora Extras as an extended collection of packages doesn't
terminate kde-redhat's right to exist.
> know because at work we have a standard fedora installation. I also really
> like various rpm's I get from freshrpms and from dags repository, but the
> example of kde-redhat where the rpm's exist in fedora.us shows that sometimes
> the willingness do them the best possible way is apparently not there.
Well, kde-redhat probably wants to remain a standalone repository, which
doesn't depend on anything else than Fedora Core. It could depend on
Fedora Extras, of course.
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