Up2date replacement

[Don Springall]

>From: Jesse Keating <jkeating at j2solutions.net>
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>Subject: Re: Up2date replacement
>Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 10:24:24 -0800
>
>On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 10:19 -0800, Dan Hollis wrote:
> >
> > It would be nice if there were some repository config manager, which
> > pulled a master "authoritative" list from somewhere and let you select
> > repositories via ncurses/x11/etc. The directory would list the 
>repository
> > name, its intended function, its geographic location and link speeds,
> > etc. to make sorting out the whole mess a bit easier.
> >
> > I have thought about writing such a beast and calling it "yuk" to
> > complement "yum" :)
>
>Such a tool, or such information that the tool uses to get the list of
>repos must live outside the scope of Fedora.  Fedora tools/content
>cannot link to, point to, or otherwise enable the use of repositories
>that may include illegal or ForbiddenItems content.
>
>--
>Jesse Keating RHCE      (http://geek.j2solutions.net)

Anyone can add repo's to yum now in /etc/yum.repos.d. A lot of people do 
this to add missing codecs from alternate repositories to play things like 
MP3 files.  Last I heard Fedora was supporting Yum. They just don't want to 
be party to providing links to sites that may have legal entanglements 
themselves. They leave that up to the users of yum. How would a tool like 
this be any different ?