I put this back on list (which is a newsgroup for me).
Bernd Radinger wrote:
On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:42:45 -0500, William M. Quarles <quarlewm@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Fedora Extras was supposed to be a community project from the beginning.
It did not come from Red Hat like Fedora Core did.
Did you ever read fedora.redhat.com? ``Fedora Extras'' is part of Red Hat's Fedora Project. But it does not exist yet.
Yeah, and I haven't seen it on The Fedora Project website yet at all. Apparently you haven't been to <http://www.fedora.us/> lately either, since that is where Fedora Extras currently exists.
Fedora Extras is not listed as one of the Fedora subprojects. <http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/>
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.
http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/
There you are.
I don't see anything about Fedora Extras there either. I do at <http://www.fedora.us> though however.
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.
Fedora Extras is subject to the same policies as Fedora Core. No software with patenting and licensing issues.
Fooey. Well, just further prooves my point that this necessitates the existence of other repositories.
---- Peace, William
