On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 13:47 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:31:01 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > I had asked Warren Togami to add them on PM and he answered: > > "There is little good reason to do so. Trying to limit the size of that > > repository because many mirror administrators see it as redundant." > > > > This is not true, SRPMS apt-repositories are not redundant. Not having > > them implies loss of functionality to apt. > > Well, then I think the Apt community may need to prove him wrong > and do some lobbying. FWIW, I would like to see the complete apt'table (pre-)Extras SRPMS repos available at fedora.us and its mirrors. The reasons have been outlined in this thread.