On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 12:00 -0700, Don Springall wrote: > >From: Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >Reply-To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases > ><fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > >To: fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx > >Subject: Re: Up2date replacement > >Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 10:24:24 -0800 > > > >On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 10:19 -0800, Dan Hollis wrote: > > > > > > It would be nice if there were some repository config manager, which > > > pulled a master "authoritative" list from somewhere and let you select > > > repositories via ncurses/x11/etc. The directory would list the > >repository > > > name, its intended function, its geographic location and link speeds, > > > etc. to make sorting out the whole mess a bit easier. > > > > > > I have thought about writing such a beast and calling it "yuk" to > > > complement "yum" :) > > > >Such a tool, or such information that the tool uses to get the list of > >repos must live outside the scope of Fedora. Fedora tools/content > >cannot link to, point to, or otherwise enable the use of repositories > >that may include illegal or ForbiddenItems content. > > > >-- > >Jesse Keating RHCE (http://geek.j2solutions.net) > > Anyone can add repo's to yum now in /etc/yum.repos.d. A lot of people do > this to add missing codecs from alternate repositories to play things like > MP3 files. Last I heard Fedora was supporting Yum. They just don't want to > be party to providing links to sites that may have legal entanglements > themselves. They leave that up to the users of yum. How would a tool like > this be any different ? if you package and include that list of repos in a package provided from fedora core/extras then it is contributory infringement -sv -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list