On Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:19:48 -0800, Jesse wrote: > Extras had significantly fewer packages, Well, Fedora Extras 6 (x86_64) contained 5129 packages, which is only 300 less than F11 stable updates. http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/extras/6/x86_64/repoview/index.html > no multilib, Just want to correct you here as "no multilib" isn't true. It implemented a whitelist, a blacklist and a multiarch depsolver, but it was decided to turn on full *-devel multiarch pushing no earlier than during Fedora 7 development. Previously (up to and including Fedora Extras 6), only some packages (like "wine") were pulled in via the whitelist. > no deltarpms, no update metadata, These two features predate the Fedora Extras era. The post-Fedora Extras pushscripts have been enhanced to create deltarpms ( http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/updates/11/i386/drpms/ ) including basic repo inheritance. > fewer arches i386, x86_64 and ppc > and was ran on different hardware. It's an apples vs. oranges comparison anyway. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
