On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 10:49 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > What I've always wanted - and have been too lazy to work on myself - is > a method where any number of systems could be easily configured to > track the changes in any other system with a publish/subscribe scheme. > > That is, one 'expert' would build and maintain a system optimized for a > particular type of use and his build tools would automatically package > his work for distibution - or he might just be assembling and assortment > of already available packages. In any case, without much extra work > it should be possible to make that exact set of packages selectable > by anyone else, in a way that updates and changes would follow the > master system automatically. Currently this would take a hand-managed > yum repository for every instance and is so much work that it doesn't > happen. Isn't Anaconda supposed to be able to provide for that sort of thing? You'd still use the same repos, but just a different installation script.