FC4 state of affairs and FC5

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 13:23 -0400, Peter Jones wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 13:06 -0400, Michael Wiktowy wrote:
> > 
> > Aren't many of the problems that this is designed to circumvent going to
> > be solved with anaconda becoming aware of extras and updates during install?
> 
> That won't happen for FC5 -- this time around we're revamping the
> internal package handling code to use yum, with the aim of making it
> *possible* to do something like this.  But the actual support for
> non-Core repos in the installer probably won't be until at least FC6.

That makes me sad.  Is there nothing we can do to get this functionality
in FC5?

I'd rather like to avoid a long flame war on this again, so I'm asking
in all sincerity.  What can we do to help?

josh