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

[seth vidal]

> Dunno, nobody ever complained apt having separate files for binary and
> source indexes :) Not that I personally care about it either, I've enough
> plenty enough bandwidth and would download the src.rpm stuff 
> anyway. Just a bit of wasted bandwidth for everybody to download those but 
> no big deal.

What does the difference work out to? Have you compared them?

like fc1 with srpms vs w/o.

> Ok, I thought it might have to do with that. OTOH there's a bz2 python 
> module in python 2.3 which is in FC2, which I think is the "target" for 
> this stuff anyway.

but if you're running createrepo on a mirror you won't necessarily have
that mirror running fc2 or python 2.3.

Hell, I was reaching to think people would have python 2.2, rpm and
libxml2

-sv