Re: Extra programs for Red Hat

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On 2003.05.26 07:58, John Kodis wrote:
> On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 01:48:44PM +0200, Igor Nestorovi? wrote:
> 
> > Let's face it, due to licencing issues some programs, especially
> > multimedia ones, would probably never be included in the official
> > release.
> 
> > Back to licencing. All right, they don't need to be included in official
> > release, but, hey, can something be worked out here? Some EXTRA ISO,
> > "unofficial", or something?
> 
> Check out the RPM repositories at freshrpms.net and fedora.us
> 
> Both offer packages that Red Hat cannot or will not distribute, but
> that there's some demand for.

You're missing the point. Igor recognizes the existance of such repositories.
His plea is to Red Hat to provide a less scary way to pull those into an
installation. I think that would be greatly appreciated by newbies, but it
would possibly pose support issues that Red Hat wouldn't want to take on...

Regards, Willem Riede.




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