i'm not sure that's what he was getting at. alot of programs are not included with fedora because of license or legal issues. that's what's so great about the vast amount of repositories and the ease of setting them up. the work of a few can benefit the many. he may have been confused as to why he had to take the extra steps to get pine instead of just having it installed by default. -d William Hooper said: > > Joe(theWordy)Philbrook said: >> Hello Duncan, You make a good point in favor of apt/synaptic. >> I'm still new to fedora, I only just now tried yum, and except for NOT >> finding things like pine And LyX (which were both available for FC1 on >> dag) >> I found it a good program. > > So it is yum's fault that DAG isn't in your yum configuration? > > -- > William Hooper > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -+(duncan brown -+(duncanbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -+(http://www.linuxadvocate.net Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. -- George Eliot
