It would appear that on Apr 12, duncan brown did say: > 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? No William it definitely wasn't Yum's fault... I didn't mean to imply that it was. When I wrote that, I was jumping in on a discussion where I thought that Duncan was recommending apt specifically because it could be configured to use other repositories. At that time I didn't yet have a clue how to configure yum to use dag... heck two weeks ago I hadn't even heard of dag (or yum or apt for that matter) I had seen enough of man yum.conf, that I thought it was possible to add repositories. But I didn't understand how. And I didn't even know that dag was compatible with it yet. Fortunately I've since found a good example yum.conf at: http://fedora.artoo.net/faq/samples/yum.conf So now I'm positive that yum is (for me) the way to go. I'd like to thank all the kind people who tried to answer my question. I know I can be a pain, And sometimes confuse people simply by using to many words. (I am sorry about that ) But I can't help it. It's actually how I [allegedly] think. Thanks for putting up with me. -- | --- --- | Joe (theWordy) Philbrook <o> <o> | J(tWdy)P ^ | <<jtwdyp@xxxxxxxx>> /---\ "bla bla bla..." | \___/ "...and bla..." At least I know my mouth is running, I just can't find the off button!
