William M. Quarles wrote:
Fedora Extras was supposed to be a community project from the beginning. It did not come from Red Hat like Fedora Core did. There should be a community on Fedora Extras now. And if this is a respected part of the Fedora Project, I am sure having a hard time finding the link from fedora.redhat.com to fedora.us.
Bravo!
The only way that I ever found out about Fedora Extras was through this mailing list.
I actually found out about it from one of the books I'd read on Fedora. On a related note, most books I've read on Fedora point you to places like freshrpms. No mention of "fedora.us" at all..
Several of the other repositories of which we speak are far from "mini." They have been around longer and are still more popular than Fedora Extras. Some have more packages. Most have much better designed and more sophisticated websites.
Indeed. From DAG's site: "I currently have *24141* packages available for different Red Hat flavors. (6.2, 7.3, 8.0, 9, EL2.1, EL3, FC1, FC2 and FC3). They comprise *1344* different projects."
Also, some include packages (like the ever-popular Xine) that were once part of Red Hat Linux but were dropped in the transition to Fedora Core. For some reason those packages never made it into Fedora Extras. As an aside, why are we still avoiding MPEG technologies in The Fedora Project, especially when it is not a product that is bought and sold? The courts already upheld the right of open source development and distribution of independently developed MPEG software.
(This is why DAG, FreshRPMS, et al. are also working on coordinating more
closely, which is _also_ a very good thing.)
And why can't Fedora Extras participate in that same process like we were suggesting? Oh, I forgot, they're still trying to act like Microsoft.
I've removed them from my repo list just out of principle.
Heh. Have fun with that.
He's got plenty of worthwhile options to choose from.
Indeed. I nixed fedora.us as soon as I learned they don't play nice and I've done quite fine without them.......
Scott
