meta-repository idea (was Re: mplayer vs. xine)

Julien Olivier julo at altern.org
Sun Feb 1 13:00:39 UTC 2004


> It would be *much* better if the same packages could be included within a
> repository like rpm.livna.org, so the user doesn't need to maintain an
> increasing list of repositories for individual packages.

Maybe something even better: isn't it possible for a repository to
automatically include another repository. For example, it would be great
if one repository could "depend" on more repositories (rpm.livna.org,
macromedia.mplug.org, jpackage.org etc...) so that end-users would only
have to add 1 line in there yum.conf and still get packages from many
repositories. It would be a kind of meta-repository.

Is it already do-able in apt/yum or should I file a request for
enhancement ?

-- 
Julien Olivier <julo at altern.org>





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