On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 01:39 -0500, seth vidal wrote: >hey, wait a second. You're a programmer aren't you? would you like to >contribute to fedora extras? I bet you could come up with a way to make >isos from Fedora Extras! Making ISOs from Extras isn't hard, and isn't the problem. Please do try to keep up with the conversation. The problem is not just that there are no ISOs of Extras yet -- the problem is that that anaconda won't handle external repositories until FC5, whether you can get them onto an ISO or not. >That's fantastic, thanks for volunteering instead of just being another >complaining voice w/o a solution. You're being deliberately misleading again. Alex offered his preferred solution on fedora-maintainers list, and isn't 'just complaining'. Look for Message-ID <orpsyoqueb.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> I fully support Fedora Extras. I've set up a build box for Extras on FC3/PPC and have made a yum repository available. I'm currently trying to work out where to find a spare build box (or enough disk space for a buildroot) for the FC4 version. I'll make ISOs for it when anaconda can handle them too. But that's not the stumbling block. Extras is good -- but it's not workable _yet_ as a mechanism for dumping packages from Core. Packages we dump now, we have to accept that they _are_ being dumped, just like the packages which were dumped for FC2. We can't excuse it on the basis that "Extras will pick them up". That doesn't work until FC5. -- dwmw2
