What is the difficult on adding a file to yum.repo.d ? It is designed for that. Each initial page for an aditional repo would have instructions on how to activate it and provide a repo file to copy from. ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 4:42:39 PM > Subject: Re: What would it take to make Software Collections work in Fedora? > > On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 03:18:42PM -0500, Fernando Nasser wrote: > > > From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > So let's say the user has to add the OCaml repo themselves. > > > That's > > > difficult for the user because lots of tools like "yum search" no > > > longer work well. > > > > > > > Really? If I add several yum repos in my tum.repo.d the yum > > subcommands > > operate over all those repos, son't they? I am surprised by this > > statement. > > Obviously I mean that yum search and many other commands don't work > until and unless the user knows (how?) what repo to add. That means > that you have to add the external repos for the user, or advertise > them, which are incompatible as I explained. > > > Did I overlook anything here? > > Lots. > > Rich. > > -- > Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat > http://people.redhat.com/~rjones > virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a > live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. > http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
